php artisan syntax error

Hi @pefremidis

If I Google your error I think you are running another PHP version. https://support.bedigit.com/help-center/articles/2/11/28/laravel-parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-t-class-expecting-t-string-or-t-variable

Hi @pefremidis If you open up the artisan file, you will see line 31 is doing this:

$kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel::class);

::class is only available from PHP 5.5 onwards so, tl;dr, you can't run Laravel 5.7.* on PHP 5.4.

This is happening because your server is running an older version of PHP. If you check your PHP version by CLI php -v then make sure that create a info.php file and write phpinfo() then check the version.

Thanks for the feedback @utpal2015, @mvd. Unfortunately, this is not the case. I created an info.php file and as I mentioned me the version of PHP is 7.3.8 :(

check directly from the command line with php -v

@utpal2015, @snapey you were right. The server's PHP version is old. They have installed PHP 5.4.16

So just to make it clear, in my case phpinfo() gave a different version that the php -v

This can happen on servers managed with software like cPanel. Multiple versions of PHP are installed to allow different PHP versions on a per site basis. So even though phpinfo() (FPM) is on 7.x, the command line (CLI) is not necessarily the same version.

As a work around you can find out where the proper PHP 7.x CLI binary is and directly call that instead of the bash alias.

web and cli may calling different global environment set hence we have to always be aware....