newscoop installation error - php

Question

When trying to install the Newscoop 4 Script ob my website...I get this Error:
Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/content/24/8222924/html/newscoop4/application.php on line 65
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/content/24/8222924/html/newscoop4/application.php on line 68
and the file it shows error in is this, i think it has something to do with the back slashes because php cant render it completely but my php version is 5.3 hopefully:
<?php
// Define path to application directory
defined('APPLICATION_PATH')
|| define('APPLICATION_PATH', __DIR__ . '/application');
// Define application environment
defined('APPLICATION_ENV')
|| define('APPLICATION_ENV', (getenv('APPLICATION_ENV') ? getenv('APPLICATION_ENV') : 'production'));
// goes to install process if configuration files does not exist yet
if (!defined('INSTALL') && (!file_exists(APPLICATION_PATH . '/../conf/configuration.php')
|| !file_exists(APPLICATION_PATH . '/../conf/database_conf.php'))) {
$subdir = substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 0, strrpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], '/', -2));
if (strpos($subdir, 'install') === false) {
header("Location: $subdir/install/");
exit;
}
}
// Ensure library/ is on include_path
set_include_path(implode(PATH_SEPARATOR, array(
realpath(APPLICATION_PATH . '/../library'),
realpath(APPLICATION_PATH . '/../include'),
get_include_path(),
)));
if (!function_exists('stream_resolve_include_paths')) {
function stream_resolve_include_paths($filename) {
foreach (explode(PATH_SEPARATOR, get_include_path()) as $include_path) {
$realpath = realpath("{$include_path}/{$filename}");
if ($realpath !== false) {
return $realpath;
}
}
return false;
}
}
if (!stream_resolve_include_paths('Zend/Application.php')) {
// include libzend if we don't have zend_application
set_include_path(implode(PATH_SEPARATOR, array(
'/usr/share/php/libzend-framework-php',
get_include_path(),
)));
}
/** Zend_Application */
require_once 'Zend/Application.php';
if (defined('INSTALL')) {
$oldErrorReporting = error_reporting();
error_reporting(0);
if (!class_exists('Zend_Application', FALSE)) {
die('Missing dependency! Please install Zend Framework library!');
}
error_reporting($oldErrorReporting);
}
// Create application, bootstrap, and run
$application = new \Zend_Application(APPLICATION_ENV);
// Set config
$setConfig = function(Zend_Application $application) {
require_once 'Zend/Config/Ini.php';
$defaultConfig = new \Zend_Config_Ini(APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/application.ini-dist', APPLICATION_ENV);
$config = $defaultConfig->toArray();
if (is_readable(APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/application.ini')) {
try {
$userConfig = new \Zend_Config_Ini(APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/application.ini', APPLICATION_ENV);
$config = $application->mergeOptions($config, $userConfig->toArray());
} catch (\Zend_Config_Exception $e) { // ignore missing section
}
}
$application->setOptions($config);
};
$setConfig($application);
unset($setConfig);
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