Update PHP version from 7.1 to 7.2 in Laravel's project

Hello guys,

could somebody write me how to improve the php version in an existing project. So that I don't make a mistake.

I currently have PHP version 7.1 and I need to upgrade to version 7.2

Thanks for the help!

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What are you running it on? Homestead? Ubuntu? Xammp?

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Im using xampp

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What version of laravel are you running? If it is 5.8 or 6.* you are good :)

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Im using Laravel 5.7.28 version

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It seems that 5.7.28 also support php 7.2 :)

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ok I have in xampp now PHP version 7.2.6, what next? :)

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I am not sure what your are asking. Do you mean if you can run both 7.1 and 7.2 at the same time? (7.1 for some projects and 7.2 for others)

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I just need update version of PHP in my Laravel project.

Now I have in my composer.json:

 "require": {
        "php": "^7.1.3",
},

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