Laravel 5.5. and PHP 7

Question

I am updating to Laravel 5.5. which uses PHP 7.0 version. I need to do setup on my local machine and on AWS as well. First, locally WAMP server is installed which comes with PHP 7.0 ... I've selected it and when localhost is opened I get the message that the PHP version is 7.0.10 ... After changing version numbers for Laravel and PHP in composer.json, I did update and got this message:

• Problem 1
  • This package requires php >=7.0 but your PHP version (5.6.25) does not satisfy that requirement. Problem 2
  • laravel/framework v5.5.2 requires php >=7.0 -> your PHP version (5.6.25) does not satisfy that requirement.
  • laravel/framework v5.5.1 requires php >=7.0 -> your PHP version (5.6.25) does not satisfy that requirement.
  • laravel/framework v5.5.0 requires php >=7.0 -> your PHP version (5.6.25) does not satisfy that requirement.
  • Installation request for laravel/framework 5.5.* -> satisfiable by laravel/framework[v5.5.0, v5.5.1, v5.5.2].

It is written that I still use 5.6. How can I change this?

Answer 1

According to @iainn Apache is using PHP 7, but the CLI (which Composer uses) is still using 5.6 hence, trying to uninstall and install composer again and select the correct php version (7.0) while setup. Check below screenshot

Answer 2

You're getting an error from composer. Try using 'composer install --ignore-platform-reqs' to setup your project folder.