Laravel project not showing in localhost: "Composer detected issues in your platform...."

Question

When I want to see my Laravel project in localhost, I get the following error message.

Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 8.0.2".

My terminal PHP version is 8.0.2, and my MAMP PHP version is 8.0 (no higher version is available, it has always worked like this). I don't know what else to do. I have already put my composer.json and .lock files at 8.0.2 PHP.

Solution

You can use the following to install/update commands if you have an invalid PHP version or are missing a PHP extension.

composer update --ignore-platform-reqs

Comments

[arkascha]

Well, what do you expect us to do? If your php version is lower than what composer expects, then that won't work...

[Nico Haase]

Please share more details. Why not use the same PHP version in both environments?

[DP101]

this is what worked for me php8.1 /usr/local/bin/composer install --ignore-platform-reqs