laravel 5 installation php artisan parse error expecting identifier (T_STRING)

Try installing the Laravel Installer again. That may be broken.

HI , I'm changed my internet connection and tried a lot of time but every time I get the same issue !!! I think It's not from the installer , there's something else missing :(

@atsm have you tried install Homestead and also creating a project using the composer command?

No , I didn't installed the homestead , I think I don't need it I installed laravel before without homestead and it was working well I'm working on Mac not window

my steps to install laravel on my mac commands was

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH" 

composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1”

then creating the new project by typing the command

 laravel new my-project-name

OR

composer create-project laravel/laravel my-project-name

Then open the server by the command

php -S localhost:8888 -t public

I had the same problem, found that PHP 5.5 is being required now:

http://laravel.io/forum/06-10-2015-laravel-5-error-on-installation?page=1

Hello Saswanb , I updated my PHP version to PHP 5.6.9

now the command

php -v 

gaves me

PHP 5.6.9 (cli) (built: May 15 2015 12:59:46) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2015, by Zend Technologies
with Xdebug v2.2.5, Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by Derick Rethans

but after create new laravel project I still get the same issue !!! :(

Had the same... There was an error on my route.php file... Don't know why but having a problem there involves artisan parsing procedure...