Laravel 4.1 can work down to 5.3.7, however 4.2 specifically requires 5.4 because it uses traits.
Thank you for your reply. I see our customers use 5.3.0, any way to install Laravel on their servers?(cannot upgrade PHP, it's just not in our power..) Can we use an older Larave version?
Installing laravel 4.1
Ok that works with PHP >= 5.3.7 but what about PHP 5.3.0?
To get lower than 5.3.7 and drop to 5.3.1 you need to implement the new bcrypt password hashing features, below 5.3.1 I'm not sure, but either which way, doing this will be a big pain.
5.3 is EOL and 5.4 is well on its way to EOL with only security patches being applied to it, so theres no reason as to why 5.3 should be being used with hosting as cheap as it is these days.
I'd assume the fact you don't have the ability to upgrade because you're using a shared hosting platform, which adds another level of headaches to trying to setup and install laravel.
Yeah iWader is right for one of our project we need also to have a 5.3.1 compatibility (not sure for 5.3.0 don't think that's possible due to namespace :/)... So here is how we did that for 5.3.1 and laravel 4.1 :
Create a class Hash from the Laravel Hash class and change the mcrypt hash method by sha1 or you can copy this example in this link (just change the namespace because this is the namespace of our project) :
(https://github.com/cherrylabs/arx-core/blob/master/src/Arx/classes/Hash.php)[https://github.com/cherrylabs/arx-core/blob/master/src/Arx/classes/Hash.php]
Create also a HashServiceProvider class like the link here :
(https://github.com/cherrylabs/arx-core/blob/master/src/Arx/providers/HashServiceProvider.php)[https://github.com/cherrylabs/arx-core/blob/master/src/Arx/providers/HashServiceProvider.php]
Then you need to reference the HashServiceProvider in app/config/app.php and change the reference to your HashServiceProvider like here
// 'Illuminate\Hashing\HashServiceProvider',
'Arx\providers\HashServiceProvider',
You can also include our package in your composer.json too with "arx/core" : "4.1.x" and simply refer the HashServiceProvider in config.app, but as our package do a lot more than that like add extra classes, starter bootstrap templates, grunt generator, make some laravel composants compatible in any project etc. (it's our agency dev kit ;-) => I don't think it's necessary for you so you can just download the 2 files classes and adapt it at your own sauce
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cherrylabs/arx-core/master/src/Arx/classes/Hash.php curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cherrylabs/arx-core/master/src/Arx/providers/HashServiceProvider.php
The man-hours to work around this could not possibly be cheaper than new/better hosting.
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