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I am getting following error during my Installation of Drupal 8

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING' or `'('' in var\www\html\core\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 3

When I went to line number 3 in index.php I saw following two lines...

use Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

I don't know what is the meaning of above two lines and why these are creating above error!

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Hopefully you're not installing Drupal 8 in the hope of using it as a stable website...it's nowhere near ready yet :)

That said, the reason you're getting the error is because the PHP const keyword has only been available for use in the global scope since PHP 5.3. Drupal 8 uses const in the global scope in a lot of places (correctly, as Drupal 8 will require at least PHP 5.3).

My guess is you have PHP 5.2 or lower installed on your server.

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Actually, it's because use is not available in 5.2 but yes, it's because 5.2. – chx Jan 9 at 13:06

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