Laravel - Composer detected issues in your platform after updating it

Question

So i just updated composer using the command composer self-update --2, However, now my web application shows the error Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 7.3.0".

I dont understand this because doing php -v gives me PHP 7.4.13

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Your terminal user's PHP version may differ from the server's version.

You may have 7.4.13 on terminal while having a completely different PHP version in apache2 or whatever server you are using.

Use phpinfo(); in a PHP file and access it via browser to see the actual PHP version.

Answer 2

Here is quick solution that work for me

1. In you project you can check the platform check file projec-path/vendor/composer/platform_check.php

   $issues = array();

after this Remove or comment the extra code

2. Add the platform check option in the composer.json config section like this.

   "config": { "platform-check": false },

After that, you need to run

composer update

After the composer update platform_check.php will be deleted and project work fine.

Answer 3

Please run this command:

composer install --ignore-platform-reqs

If you add the --ignore-platform-reqs option when running Composer update, it will ignore restrictions. Click here for more information.