Errors on upgrading Laravel from 8 to 9

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some time ago I updated my local project from version 5 to 9, and everything works correctly. Now it's time to update the production version and I didn't want to reload the whole project, but to update as I did locally. A couple of months ago I upgraded from version 5 to 7.3. Today I updated to version 8.83, and I wanted to get to the latest version. The error it returns to me is the following:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=>' (T_DOUBLE_ARROW) in /home/mywebsite/mywebsite.com/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Collections/Collection.php on line 488

How can I solve this problem? Thanks in advance to all those who will help me.

Laravel 9 requires PHP 8 you don't seem to have that in production — apokryfos, Sep 18 '22 at 15:53
In production I have selected PHP 8.1, in cPanel. And then I verified that using command php -v — Alessandro Dalla Via, Sep 18 '22 at 15:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 19 '22 at 10:39

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Apokryfos was right. The general version was 7.4, and not being able to change it because it is the responsibility of the hosting, I contacted the support, who advised me to use a special command so that Composer could use the appropriate version of PHP. Thanks all for the help.

answered Sep 19 '22 at 10:39

Alessandro Dalla Via

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Errors on upgrading Laravel from 8 to 9

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