Update.php does nothing

Question

I'm trying to do a minor security upgrade to Drupal 8.1.7 When I load update.php it gives me a blank page (no errors).

I upgraded all of the software with the exception of the root .htaccess and robots.txt files.

I'm getting this error:

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING or '(' in /home/energy/public_html/index.php on line 11

The line causing the error is the following one.

use Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel;

I'm running PHP 5.2.9. This is probably the problem as Drupal now requires 5.3. It is very strange as the previous versions of Drupal 8 ran fine on PHP 5.2.9. — Aaron Kreider, Jul 19, 2016 at 21:56
You should use PHP 7 as its much faster than 5.5.9 or any other 5.something version — No Sssweat, Jul 19, 2016 at 22:53

apaderno · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-19 22:02:20Z

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Drupal 8 requires PHP 5.5.9. If you are using PHP 5.2.9, it doesn't recognize as valid a line like use Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel; since namespaces were introduced in PHP 5.3.

If you were already running a stable release of Drupal 8 before, check you didn't change in someway the PHP version used from your site.

answered Jul 19, 2016 at 22:02

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