[Plugin: WP-PageNavi] Can't activate plugin: Parse Error.

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Hi,

I’m having this same issue. Strangely, I have 6 different installs of WP on the server, and the plugin works flawlessly on 2 of them, but I get the parse error when trying to activate the plugin on the 4 others.

When I checked the PHP version, it gave me this text “string(5) “4.4.8””. So I guess that’s the version of PHP I have. I wonder, though, that it works in some of my installs, and not others… Is there no way to make page-navi work with lesser versions than PHP 5 ?

There’s no point in that, since WordPress itself will require PHP5 pretty soon:

PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement

I was unable to activate or deactivate plugins from my admin panel. Also, plugins like Sexy Bookmarks stopped working. A general Google search lead me here and hinted at the problem wp-pagenavi. I wouldn’t have thought this plugin was the problem because it worked fine on the website.

After deleting the wp-pagenavi plugin folder via FTP, everything works just find. Using WordPress 3.0.1

I put var_dump(PHP_VERSION);
an I get this
string(6) “5.2.14”
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/aquapech/public_html/wp-config.php:1) in /home/aquapech/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 890

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/aquapech/public_html/wp-config.php:1) in /home/aquapech/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 890

so I have php5 but this plug do not activate….

sorry, plug is working, thanks