This is because you are using version 4.x of PHP. You will want to contact your web host and have them upgrade PHP to the latest version (currently 5.3.3). As long as you are using PHP 5.x you will have no problems.
What is happening is that your older version of PHP doesn’t recognize the newer keywords used in PHP 5, thus the error.
Ah…thanks so much. I had a feeling that that was the case but don’t have access to the hosting information as of this moment. I have to get that from the client. Thanks so much.
I am having the same problem. Now I have enabled PHP5 it will still not let me activate the plugin and yields pretty much the same error message as above
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /usr/local/pem/vhosts/134712/webspace/siteapps/20233/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/promotion-slider/index.php on line 35
@mark 32 – I would make sure you are running PHP 5 by running a phpinfo() function call. This will spit out a bunch of info about your php install and will tell you what version you are using.
Thanks for getting back to me woodent. Problem solved though – there was a problem with the wordpress installation (it was also causing issues with other plugins) so I done a fresh install and all is now operating as it should.
