Hi Guys. I was running my laravel project just fine in localhost, but now that I updated my files to my university's server. I'm getting the following error:
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'class' (T_CLASS), expecting identifier (T_STRING) or variable (T_VARIABLE)
First thing that came to my mind was PHP version, but:
Server version:
PHP 5.4.44-0+deb7u1 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Aug 16 2015 09:52:28) Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
Laravel 5.0 documentaion:
#Server Requirements
- The Laravel framework has a few system requirements:
- PHP >= 5.4
- Mcrypt PHP Extension
- OpenSSL PHP Extension
- Mbstring PHP Extension
- Tokenizer PHP Extension
No idea what can it be.
Are you sure you are running Laravel 5.0? Because 5.1 requires PHP >= 5.5.9. That error message sounds like it could be because of PHP 5.5's class name resolution.
Example: ObjectClassName::class
http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.basic.php#language.oop5.basic.class.class
thomastkim said:
Are you sure you are running Laravel 5.0? Because 5.1 requires PHP >= 5.5.9. That error message sounds like it could be because of PHP 5.5's class name resolution.
Example:
ObjectClassName::classhttp://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.basic.php#language.oop5.basic.class.class
You right omg o.O I did follow the 5.0 documentation instalation guide. :O
$ php artisan --version
Laravel Framework version 5.1.17 (LTS)
Oddly enough, I think this is a good thing. It would be best to upgrade the PHP version to 5.5, especially since PHP stopped security support 21 days ago.
http://php.net/supported-versions.php
If you can't though, then you would be to downgrade to 5.0. I don't know of any easy way to do this. You can follow the "upgrade" guide and work backwards from there, but it would probably be easier just creating a fresh copy of Laravel and migrating the changes. I think this command installs a fresh Laravel 5.0:
composer create-project laravel/laravel {directory} "~5.0.0" --prefer-dist
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