PHP 5.2: Parse error after installation

kolja · 19 June 2016 19:30

Hi

I installed emoncms with this tutorial:

emoncms/emoncms/blob/master/docs/SharedLinuxHostingInstall.md

# Shared Linux Hosting

Your shared hosting provider should already have a LAMP server installed. You may need to ask your hosting provider to enable mod_rewrite. It's unlikely that redis will be available (redis is used to improve performance through caching), but emoncms can be run without it.

To install emoncms on a shared server

1) Check with your hosting provider that mod_rewrite is enabled

2) Download the emoncms zip file from:

**You may want to install one of the other branches of emoncms here, perhaps to try out a new feature set not yet available in the master branch. See the branch list and descriptions on the [start page](https://github.com/emoncms/emoncms)**

[https://github.com/emoncms/emoncms/archive/stable.zip](https://github.com/emoncms/emoncms/archive/stable.zip)

Unzip to your shared server's public_html folder, rename the folder to emoncms.
i.e. You should end up with all the files in the directory public_html/emoncms/

3) Create a mysql database for your emoncms installation, note down its name, username and password.

4) In your shared hosting /home/username folder create a folder called emoncmsdata to hold your emoncms feed data.

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But as i try to call the url i got this message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /www/htdocs/xxx/xxx/emon/route.php on line 112

What can i do?

Mark · 7 August 2016 12:03

I’m getting the same problem.

“Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[’ in /home/sites/mysite.co.uk/public_html/emoncms/route.php on line 112”

In a light bulb moment I tried changing the php version to 5.5. It was on 5.2 and I am now getting the create feed page so looks like progress

–
Mark

glyn.hudson · 8 August 2016 09:02

PHP 5.5 is the minimum version supported by Emoncms, 5.6 is recommended.

Does you shared server support docker? Is so, I would consider looking out using Emoncms running in our docker container for easy install:

Requirements section has been added to the readme:

github.com

emoncms/emoncms/blob/master/readme.md#requirements

# Emoncms

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Emoncms is an open-source web application for processing, logging and visualising energy, temperature and other environmental data and is part of the [OpenEnergyMonitor project](http://openenergymonitor.org).

![Emoncms](docs/files/emoncms_graphic.png)

## Requirements

- PHP (tested with 7.0.30) 
- MYSQL or MariaDB (tested with 15.1) 
- Apache (tested with 2.4.25)
- Redis* (tested with 3.2.6)

_*Redis is recommended because it reduces the number of disk writes and therefore prolongs disk life (noticeably on SD cards e.g. RaspberryPi). Some input-processors also require redis and fail silently if redis is not installed. Some environments such as shared hosting or as far as we have tried windows servers don't support redis hence why emoncms has a fall back mode that allows core operation without redis._

## Using Emoncms

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