Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'new' (T_NEW)

[mjames]

I'm trying to upgrade to 3.8.11 from 3.8.7. My server is running PHP 5.4 and I'm getting this error when I go to the upgrade.php page:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '*' in /usr/www/user...

[mjames]

So how do I get my hands on 3.8.11? Do I really have to buy 5x just to get a minor update on 3x?

[mjames]

Is there any way I can upgrade my 3.8.7 to the latest 3.8x? I am willing to pay, but I don't see the option to do this. I don't think it's necessary to pay for vB5 if I want to stay on 3.8x. My forum...

[mjames]

I need to upgrade my 3.8.7 to the latest 3.8x version to be compatible with PHP 5.6, correct? The problem is my license has expired, I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars to get vB 5. What can I ...

[mjames]

Hi, I am running 3.8x and when I visit my forum, all I get is this error below. I am unable to access my admin CP or do anything. Help! What should I do?


Parse error: syntax error,...

[mjames]

How can I upgrade to 3.8.9 if I am running 3.8.8 PL1? My license has expired. Please don't tell me I have to pay hundreds of dollars to do a minor upgrade like this.

[mjames]

Any ideas? This error is so vague. I've got over 1,000 error emails and counting today... this is driving me crazy.

[mjames]

I just moved web hosts and my forum and site appear to be working fine and have propagated. However, I am getting hundreds of these error e-mails. Any idea why? The forum is loading fine, though......

[mjames]

I renamed my .htaccess file and my forum works without vBSEO ... so that's progress.

[mjames]

I just tried to upgrade from 3.8.4 to 3.8.6, but the upgrade.php page and index.php, etc. pages of my forum are BLANK when I visit them. Should I have disabled vBSEO before upgrading vB? I can't even...

[mjames]

I'm trying to e-mail my inactive users with 50 or more posts using the Email Manager. I selected "Registered" as the primary usergroup and 50 in the posts are greater than or equal to field....

[mjames]

What is the best way to restrict new users' ability to send PMs? Say I want to make it so you need X number of posts before you can send a PM. This is to curtail new members signing up to explicitly to...

[mjames]

I just upgraded from 3.5.5 to 3.6.0 on PHP 4.3.11 with no problems. Cheers!

[mjames]

I just had my host upgrade me to PHP 4.3.11 for vB 3.6. Did you ever get this working?

[mjames]

Edit: Appears to work once I removed the above code from postbit_legacy.

[mjames]

I reverted a bunch of templates and can't find how to remove the AIM/ICQ/Y!/MSN/Skype icons in posts. I looked in postbit and removed this:

<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon]

...

[mjames]

For now, I will ban @cashette.com and see if that eliminates this.

[mjames]

I agree, but the fact that I received NINE failure notice e-mails from the same IP/domain overnight all at the same time (2:03 AM) raises my suspicions. And I received several at the same time the day...

[mjames]

For the last few weeks, I have noticed failed new registration attempts by what seems like a bot. I receive a handful of error e-mails each night from the same IP that is trying to register various random...

[mjames]

Looks like it's the Yahoo! "Slurp" spider and this is not uncommon. I am going to add this to robots.txt to slow it down:

User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 30

Not...