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not able to Install codeception in windows


C:\wamp\www\project\automation\codeception>

php codecept.phar bootstrap PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in phar://C:/wamp/www/project/aut omation/codeception/codecept.phar/vendor/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/functions.php on line 24 PHP Stack trace: PHP 1. {main}() C:\wamp\www\project\automation\codeception\codecept.phar:0 PHP 2. require_once() C:\wamp\www\project\automation\codeception\codecept.phar :5 PHP 3. require_once() phar://C:/wamp/www/project/automation/codeception/codece pt.phar/autoload.php:4 PHP 4. ComposerAutoloaderInit47cdf60ec5efa3860ea7539ac6be7d49::getLoader() pha r://C:/wamp/www/project/automation/codeception/codecept.phar/vendor/autoload.php :7 PHP 5. composerRequire47cdf60ec5efa3860ea7539ac6be7d49() phar://C:/wamp/www/pr oject/automation/codeception/codecept.phar/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php:52

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in phar://C:/wamp/www/project/automati
on/codeception/codecept.phar/vendor/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/functions.php

on line 24

Call Stack:
    0.0110     658208   1. {main}() C:\wamp\www\project\automation\codeception\c
odecept.phar:0
    0.0128     671848   2. require_once('phar://C:/wamp/www/project/automation/c
odeception/codecept.phar/autoload.php') C:\wamp\www\project\automation\codecepti
on\codecept.phar:5
    0.0133     673968   3. require_once('phar://C:/wamp/www/project/automation/c
odeception/codecept.phar/vendor/autoload.php') phar://C:/wamp/www/project/automa
tion/codeception/codecept.phar/autoload.php:4
    0.0137     695984   4. ComposerAutoloaderInit47cdf60ec5efa3860ea7539ac6be7d4
9::getLoader() phar://C:/wamp/www/project/automation/codeception/codecept.phar/v
endor/autoload.php:7
    0.0204    1014824   5. composerRequire47cdf60ec5efa3860ea7539ac6be7d49() pha
r://C:/wamp/www/project/automation/codeception/codecept.phar/vendor/composer/aut
oload_real.php:52

Solution

  • It's not because of Windows. Probably you are running PHP 5.3 or less. In this case you should use Codeception 1.8.x, as pointed out here: http://codeception.com/builds