Laravel 5.5 wont install with php7

Question

I try to install Laravel 5.5 version so I run command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel test 5.5.*

but I got this error:

If you see the top of image I run command php -v and its clear that version i 7.0.27

How to solve my issue?

Answer 1

You can try to update your composer:

composer update

Or try to use the full php7 path, example:

/path/to/your/php7 composer.phar create-project laravel/laravel test 5.5.*

Answer 2

Seem your XAMPP not installed properly. Uninstall existing XAMPP and manually delete the entire folder. (take backup of htdocs if there s some files as well PHPmyadmin DB backups). And download XAMPP from here and install it.

1. Install composer

and run this

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel test

It's PHP7, so composer install Laravel 5.5 or higher by-default

Answer 3

I had this issue and the problem was that an after php upgrade there was still two php versions running almost together, so, in my case composer was using one version of php and laravel use the other. To solve that problem i uninstalled all php versions, update my php repositories and then i made a fresh install of php, composer and laravel. Nowadays I have laravel 5.5 running with php 7.2 and i added laravel in enviroment variables so when i need to creaste a new project i use laravel new project_name Hope this helps you!

Answer 4

不要为项目指定版本

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel test

Answer 5

By any chance is the PHP require value in composer.json not "php": ">=7.0.0"

Try adding --prefer-dist and remove 5.5.*

Answer 6

Laravel requires PHP >= 7.0.0, you currently have version 5.6.

Install a newer version of PHP or use homestead.