Laravel valet 2.0 php 5.6

I think you can get around that if you use al older version of valet. Note that the thread you mention is over a year old.

What kind of project is this? If it's a Laravel project you can simply run php artisan serve and you only need to setup a database locally to make it work.

Oh yes, I probably could do that - thank you. Is it easy to change version?

And it is an old magento webshop for work. I use laravel and valet for personal projects. So when I needed a development environment for work I thought of valet, as it is (usually) easy to use.

Well you need to install valet again from scratch, probably remove the other once first. A specific version can be pulled from composer.

composer global require laravel/valet <my-needed-version>

I believe this version should work

composer global require laravel/valet "2.0.4"

Other versions: https://github.com/laravel/valet/releases

It seems like the other components from composer still requires php 7 on 2.0.4: PHP Fatal error: Default value for parameters with a class type hint can only be NULL in /Users/jimmi/.composer/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php on line 83

Maybe even an older version?

I tried older and with Caddy, but ultimately I found a solution with a third-party fork of valet: https://github.com/weprovide/valet-plus

With that you can just type valet use 5.6

Nice nice! Good catch ;)