How do I fix Laravel Composer autoload_classmap Error

Question

I've downloaded our copy of a Laravel project to my local computer. I'm running XAMP 3.2.2, PHP 5.6.19. I've installed Composer and updated the database configuration.

But as I run the project, localhost/AAAAA (AAAAA is the folder of the Laravel project), I get the error below:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '' => $vendorDir . '' (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING) in C:\xampp\htdocs\AAAAA\vendor\composer\autoload_classmap.php on line 1621

How do I fix the problem?

Thanks

Answer 1

You could try regenerating the composer autoload files:

php composer.phar dump-autoload

Since you just downloaded the project, you'd likely need to initiate an install first which should do this for you:

php composer.phar install

The install command will install all project dependencies into vendor/ and dump the autoload files. The package information is stored in composer.json & composer.lock.