PHP 5.6 installation issue

MingZ

Hi guys,

Have you got this kind of error on Flarum installation page ?

"Something went wrong. "

Here is the Apache error I found:
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ';' or '{' in /home/austbook/public_html/forum/vendor/doctrine/dbal/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/Driver/AbstractMySQLDriver.php on line 154.

My server config is running PHP 5.6.33
Mysql version is : 5.5.59

The installation stopped in the middle, and database only created 15 tables , instead of 20+ tables.
Seems the vendor doctrine has changed something and PHP 5.6 can't work with it. Function getOracleMysqlVersionNumber() reported error.
(might because of release v2.7)

Anyone got similar issue ?

Kind regards

luceos

MingZ you probably used composer locally while using php 7+. You should run composer on a comparable environment with the same php version as the one you will be running Flarum on.

MingZ

Thank you luceos

I have upgraded PHP to 7 and problem is gone.