Installed Lumen 5.5 and it gave me php 5.6 instead of php7 ?

So I needed to install Lumen < 5.6 because our deployment servers are running php 7.0 instead of 7.1, however it seems to have installed Lumen 5.5 but with php 5.6 !?

Am I looking at it incorrectly ? The composer.json is showing:

  "require": {
    "php": ">=5.6.4",
    "laravel/lumen-framework": "5.5.*",
    "vlucas/phpdotenv": "~2.2"
   },

Why would it do that ? Can I specify the version at install ? Or is this simply saying it needs php AT LEAST 5.6 ?

bobbybouwmann

8 years ago

Level 88

Yes, it requires at least 5.6.4, but any newer version is fine as well. So you can run lumen5.5 in php7.0 and php7.1 if you wish ;)

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