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can I download an older MyBB version that is compatible with my php 4.x / MySQL5 ?

When I try to install MyBB I get the following error message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /homepages/2/d93205091/htdocs/MyMBB/Upload/inc/class_error.php on line 51

When I upgrade to php5 the error message does not occur anylonger, however, the rest of my server does not work propperly too, so I have to downgrade to php 4x again.

Thank you.

You should really make sure software you use can run on PHP 5, we can't support MyBB 1.4 (which is PHP 4 compatible) forever, and you can't run PHP 4 forever, as more and more software is going to start requiring PHP 5+.

It's pretty strange though for software to only work on PHP 4 and not work at all on PHP 5.