Text Plugin Parse Error

I’ve been using Glen Swinfield’s ExpressionEngine Text Plugin for a while now, and it’s been working a treat until the other day when I had to move my site to a new server.

It’s now on a Mediatemple (gs) server, and for some reason I’m getting parsing errors from the plugin on any page where it is used:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /nfs/c05/h01/mnt/******/domains/mysite.com/html/admin/plugins/pi.gms_text.php on line 139

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I’m also locked out of the Plugin Manager page, and I’m assuming it’s because of the same error.

I would really appreciate any ideas anyone has about fixing this! I’d rather not remove the plugin altogether because it’s used a significant amount throughout my site.

Many thanks in advance…

Since this is a third party plugin, let me move this thread to the appropriate forum for you …

I finally found a solution:

It seems that my new server has a different version of PHP and it was having problems with the following Function on line 139 of the Plugin file:

static function usage()
    {
    ob_start(); 
  ?>

I noticed after a while of staring at the file that a few lines beneath, Glen had kindly included a note:

If your php version is 4.x you need to remove the ‘static’ keyword from the usage function in the plugin file.

So I removed the word ‘static’ from line 139, so it now reads:

function usage()
    {
    ob_start(); 
  ?>

And the problem is solved!

I finally found a solution:

It seems that my new server has a different version of PHP and it was having problems with the following Function on line 139 of the Plugin file:

static function usage()
    {
    ob_start(); 
  ?>

I noticed after a while of staring at the file that a few lines beneath, Glen had kindly included a note:

If your php version is 4.x you need to remove the ‘static’ keyword from the usage function in the plugin file.

So I removed the word ‘static’ from line 139, so it now reads:

function usage()
    {
    ob_start(); 
  ?>

And the problem is solved!