PHP Parse error syntax error unexpected in helpers php 233

Question

When I create a new Laravel project  the browser displays an error 500  I found this in the log      PHP Parse error   syntax error  unexpected     in vendor laravel framework src Illuminate Foundation helpers php on line 233   the code in 233 is   return app  cache  - gt get  arguments 0    arguments 1     null     But as i know  null coalescing operator       is supported from PHP 7 0  My PHP Version   PHP 7 1 8-2 ubuntu14 04 1 deb sury org 4  cli   built  Aug  4 2017 14 34 05    NTS   Copyright  c  1997-2017 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3 1 0  Copyright  c  1998-2017 Zend Technologies     with Zend OPcache v7 1 8-2 ubuntu14 04 1 deb sury org 4  Copyright  c  1999-2017  by Zend Technologies  Laravel Version  5 5 0  Who knows what happened

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If you came across this error while using the command line its because you must be using php 7 to execute whatever it is you are trying to execute. What happened is that the code is trying to use an operator thats only available in php7+ and is causing a syntax error.

If you already have php 7+ on your computer try pointing the command line to the higher version of php you want to use.

export PATH=/usr/local/[php-7-folder]/bin/:$PATH

Here is the exact location that worked based off of my setup for reference:

export PATH=/usr/local/php5-7.1.4-20170506-100436/bin/:$PATH

The operator thats actually caused the break is the "null coalesce operator" you can read more about it here:

php7 New Operators

User · Answer

If you have newly upgraded your php version you might be forget to restart your webserver service

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I had approximately the same problem with Laravel 5 5 on ubuntu  finally i ve found a solution here to switch between the versions of php used by apache     sudo a2dismod php5  sudo a2enmod php7 1 sudo service apache2 restart   and it works

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If I had to guess  I d say you installed the PPA 7 1 8 as CLI only  php7-cli   You re getting your version info from that  but your libapache2-mod-php package is still 14 04 main which is 5 6  Check your phpinfo in your browser to confirm the version  You might also consider migrating to Ubuntu 16 04 to get PHP 7 0 in main

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I had the same error and the problem is that I had not correctly installed Composer   I am using Windows and I installed Composer-Setup exe from getcomposer org and when you have more than one version of PHP installed you must select the version that you are running at this point of the installation

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I had the same problem with the laravel initiation  The solution was as follows   1st - I checked the version of my PHP  That it was 5 6 would soon give problem with the laravel   2nd - I changed the version of my PHP to PHP 7 1 1  ATTENTION  in my case I changed my environment variable that was getting Xampp s PHP version 5 6 I changed to 7 1 1 for laragon   3rd - I went to the terminal   console and navigated to my folder where my project was and typed the following command  php artisan serves  And it worked  In my case it started at the port  8000 see example below   C    laragon   www   first  php artisan serves Laravel development server started  http   127 0 0 1 8000  I hope I helped someone who has been through the same problem as me

[laravel-5.5] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '?' in helpers.php 233

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