rose kayak
I need to use Laravel 8 specifically.
My PHP version is higher than what it says in the command prompt
PHP 8.2.5 (cli) (built: Apr 13 2023 17:59:46) (NTS) Copyright (c) The PHP Group
So I installed an older PHP version (7.4)
But I still get an error....
Cannot use laravel/laravel's latest version v8.0.3 as it requires php ^7.3 which is not satisfied by your platform.
So it means I cannot use Laravel 8 on mac?
How to use Laravel 8 on Mac?
I solved by reinstalling composer...
So if anyone wants to use previous versions
brew unlink php@version then brew link php@version
eternal needle
@rose kayak Why are you deliberately installing an old—and now end of life—version?
https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/releases#support-policy
wary canopy
I agree 100% with Martin's statement, but IF you HAVE to run legacy - I'd recommend using valet. You can use valet isolate to specify a specific PHP version for a specific app, run composer using that specific php version and more.
rose kayak
<@1075910627844952196> Why are you deliberately installing an old—and now end of...
company's servers are configured with laravel v8 so new laravel versions causing issues. Apart than new projects, I also need legacy versions for maintaining older projects made with older Laravel versions.
rose kayak
I agree 100% with Martin's statement, but IF you HAVE to run legacy - I'd recomm...
oh it sounds very useful. I switch to different php and laravel versions very often.
eternal needle
company's servers are configured with laravel v8 so new laravel versions causing...
What do you mean, “servers configured with Laravel 8”? Laravel is PHP. You don’t “configure” a server for a specific framework version. You deploy whatever code to a server and the server, well, serves it.
And if you need to maintain old apps, then you’d just clone those apps rather than creating brand new apps surely?
rose kayak
server computer has laravel 8 installed I think, they made me downgrade the version and they said it is because of the servers, I was fine with latest.
eternal needle
That makes no sense.
rose kayak
so I could basically keep working with latest laravel?
eternal needle
Well what version of PHP is installed on these servers?
rose kayak
7
eternal needle
Mate.
PHP 7 is so old it’s not even listed in the supported versions page: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
rose kayak
lol I know
and current project I'm working shares one backend for 2 diffferent apps, and it is laravel 8 as well so I have to work with legacy version.
have you ever seen php v4? A couple of months ago there was a legacy app that required maintenance and the company brought someone who could code with that dinosour.
he worked for two days and gone.