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?

Solution 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.

Solution 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.

Solution 3

Please run this command:

composer install --ignore-platform-reqs

Solution 4

I ran into this issue after installing a new version of PHP on a server using IIS. Not realizing that IIS didn't support verbs like UPDATE/PATCH out of the box, and these methods were being utilized by the website. When a route was accessed via PATCH for instance, the new version of PHP was not handling that, so it fell-back to the old version of PHP -- and that's when this error presented itself.

Resolving it was simply a matter of editing the Handler Mappings in IIS. I found the mapping that would point *.php files to my new version of PHP, and customized it so that it would support other verbs like PATCH

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Comments

[Shurvir Mori]

Short answer : add --ignore-platform-reqs after any command, in My case, composer create-project casuses issues, but composer create-project --ignore-platform-reqs runs well

[ravexu]

You were correct. Thanks a lot. The nginx conf file had php7.2 fpm

[Eduardo]

I did this and the printed version was 7.4.14 however this is the message I get: Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 7.4.0". You are running 7.3.25 where else could I look?

[Hache_raw]

@Eduardo I think your case is the opposite: do a php -v on terminal and if it prints 7.3.25 you'll have to change the terminal user's php version

[Eduardo]

@Hache_raw that outputs 7.4

[Hache_raw]

Not a real solution but if you are sure your server is running the required version you can try composer install --ignore-platform-reqs

[east1000]

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[Nico Haase]

Please add some explanation to your answer such that others can learn from it. Also, please mention the possible consequences of using that option

[karnveersingh]

@NicoHaase i guess you are right. Here is the explanation. if you add the --ignore-platform-reqs option when you run composer update, it will ignore restrictions. Please refer this for more information -: hannesvdvreken.com/2015/01/18/…

[Nico Haase]

Please add all explanation to your answer instead of linking to external ressources

[Nico Haase]

Update it to which version? If anything later than 7.3 is required and currently PHP 7.4.13 is used, this looks like a different error. Also, what if the OP doesn't even use cpanel?

[ymakux]

so stupid fix, lol

[deemi-D-nadeem]

Fixed my issue. thanx alot ;)