I am very new to laravel and php and I am just trying to set up my development environment.
I am interested in using octobercms and installing it has been anything but simple. I tried the console installation by typing
composer create-project october/october myoctober dev-master
which gave an error saying mcrypt wasn't installed so I thought that was my next step. After spending hours trying to figure out how to install it I came across this
homebrew/php/php53-mcrypt
and I brew installed it. Now, laravel and my composer won't work. Every time I write any sort of composer command, I get this:
??+?% returned
No one on google seems to have this problem and every time I write and laravel command in the terminal I get some sort of error like this:
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[', expecting ')' in /Users/marika/.composer/vendor/guzzlehttp/promises/src/functions.php on line 41
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[', expecting ')' in /Users/marika/.composer/vendor/guzzlehttp/promises/src/functions.php on line 41
it was all working before I brew installed mcrypt and I tried to uninstall but that just gave me more errors, so I reinstalled and now I don't know what else to do.
You have the wrong php version. At line 41 of the functions.php of guzzle, it says:
$promise = new Promise([$queue, 'run']);
which is short array syntax. You will need php5.4 to run your code, as the doc states:
As of PHP 5.4 you can also use the short array syntax, which replaces array() with [].
As you are on MacOS, in order to get a more up to date version of PHP, install a newer version via:
brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew tap homebrew/versions
brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php
brew install php56
brew unlink php53
brew link php56