PHP error after laravel installation

Question

I would like to use laravel for my php project. I use WampServer2.2 (php 5.3.8 and Apache 2.2.21) on Windows 8.1. But after all kind of installation I tried (via composer or downloading the zip), when I get to the public folder in my browser I get PHP errors as :

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in C:\wamp\www\spi\laravel-master\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Support\helpers.php on line 411

or

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in C:\wamp\www\spi\laravel-master\bootstrap\compiled.php on line 506

What may be the problem?

Answer 1

You say that your php version is 5.3.8 and the laravel docs say that 5.4 is required. The latest version(2.5) of WampServer comes with php 5.5.