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Filth's avatar

PHP Artisan Parse Error

I have been working on this project for a couple of days no problem, today artisan wont work...

Any artisan command results in: [Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException]
parse error

If I run composer install [Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException]
parse error

Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-install-cmd event returned with an error

[RuntimeException]
Error Output:

Its not the usual syntax error, is my artisan corrupt?

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Filth's avatar

I have no idea what caused this but I just ran git fetch --all and did a hard reset. Obviously this wont solve for anyone not using git version control so hopefully someone has another way.

Boka's avatar

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...

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