Anonymous functions using Anonymous functions

Question

im getting this error Parse error: parse error when using this function,

 $rows_tick = array_filter(
                $rows, 
                function ($element) use ($date_tick) { 
                    return ($element['ModTime'] <= $date_tick->format("His000"));
                }
               );

am i miss some thing?

when using wampp server with php v 5.3.x it run normaly, but not when using xampp with php 5.2.9,

is it wrong ? when using Anonymous functions in php less than 5.3 ?

Answer 1

Anonymous functions comes from php 5.3.

You should write normal function where php < 5.3.

Answer 2

From the manual:

PHP version 5.3.0 Anonymous functions become available