[Plugin: Events Manager] Getting a Parse Error when trying to activate plugin.

Never mind I figured out an alternative solution.

Muirin, check to see if php is configured correctly on your server. That seems to be what was giving me that error. It was also preventing another plugin from working properly.

Thanks for noticing this. My server is indeed running under a PHP4 version right now, so tonight I’m going to switch to 5. I’ll let you know if it works for me then.

Yup, I was going to ask your php version but since you said 5.x in your first post I was quite puzzled as to why (although in theory it should still work for php4)

Not able to upgrade – is there a fix for php 4 users?

I advise you upgrade. You host should do this for you, and if they don’t, I advise you to move hosts ?? WP is only supporting php5 as of next year, so at one point we’d be doing the same anyway.

I’ll try to check this out, but given that only 5% of wordpress users are using php v4 it’s not a priority.

Unfortunately the host is not going to upgrade until after the first of the year. Moving would take several days with the size of the site and is pointless to do if the upgrade is going to happen in less than two months.

In the mean time — I’m stuck with a non-functioning “Events” page on a busy site.

It might be helpful to others if there were a warning that the upgrade DOES NOT work with PHP 4.

I’d say they’re a few years too late ??

I’d be willing to have a look at this issue provided there aren’t huge incompatibilities and if you give me access to some server space with php4. See contact link above.

I’ve now switched to PHP5 on my server and the script is running smoothly. Guess we can say for sure now that this error occurred because of an outdated PHP version.

I’m running PHP 5.3.3

Just tried installing 3.0.7 and get:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare em_load_event() (previously declared in (…)/wp-content/plugins/events-manager3.0.7/events-manager.php:139) in (…)/wp-content/plugins/events-manager3.0.7/events-manager.php on line 152

All other WP plugins are turned off.

Any ideas?

EM 3.0.7 installs and runs without errors here using PHP 5.2.14.

Glad to hear it’s working for you. Honest, I am.

But we’re not likely to downgrade PHP from 5.3.3, which is the current stable version. There are other sites on the server which require it.

sounds to me like you’ve installed something twice. you’re meant to have only an events-manager folder, not events-manager3.0.7 I’d say check your plugin folder first.

Ah. That was it. Glad it was something so simple.

(I had several versions in there that I was trying out and wanted to keep them straight)

I obtain this errore in activation:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /web/htdocs/www.reameincantato.it/home/ilgrv/wp-content/plugins/events-manager/ajax.php on line 8

if you contact me on https://netweblogic.com/contact/ and provide ftp details and admin user credentials I’ll have a look and see