It will fail and will give tons of errors. If you go to localhost/dashboard/phpinfo.php, you will see the latest php version.īut, when you try to run composer. Save it! Now, if you will try to run apache. That's it! You have finally put the latest php inside Xampp. Then paste the new php folder in the existing xampp. Now, go to your existing xampp folder and rename the current PHP folder to php7 or whatever you want.

You can download source code of xampp windows from source forge.Įxtract the folder and copy php folder from the latest xampp. 3 simple steps to update PHP 7 to PHP 8 in XAMPP:īefore moving forward make sure to take backup (Optional but just in case if something went wrong). Then, I figured out that it could be the issue of PHP of my xampp with the composer. So, even after running the composer global update didn't update the overall packages. I was trying to make a new build of Laravel with laravel new project-name but the composer was making it with the old version 8.Īs Laravel 9 requires PHP 8, my composer was linked to PHP 7. Do you know that you can update PHP in the XAMPP server within a few minutes? This article tells you how to update PHP for Xampp and composer.

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