PHP version modification for Compass Commands

[captainhook]

• Laravel Version: 5.5
• Voyager Version: 1.0.7
• PHP Version: 7.0
• Database Driver & Version: MariaDB 5.5.56
• OS: CentOS 7.4.1708 + Plesk Onyx 17.5.3

Description:

I am using Plesk, and have used PHP 7 to install Laravel and Voyager. By default any system with Plesk installed uses the core 5.6 version. So I am using /opt/plesk/php/7.0/bin/php ... to call the correct version each time.

Voyager compass uses the fixed command, php artisan and so follows the system's built in config, and throws the error PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'class' (T_CLASS), expecting identifier (T_STRING) or variable (T_VARIABLE) or '{' or '$' in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/laravel/artisan on line 33 Where in my case it should be /opt/plesk/php/7.0/bin/php artisan make:model ...

Suggestion:

To make Compass work for an instance with multiple PHP versions, could there perhaps be a config in config/voyager.php which allows the php pathto be modified from the default? I believe this scenario would be quite common.

[fletch3555]

This is a known issue. For some reason, Compass is creating a Process object to run Artisan commands instead of using the Artisan facade directly (Ref). This means it's calling php directly, which uses the version of php that's found on the system path (5.6 in your case). I think the correct solution is to require everyone to set up their servers correctly, but obviously that's not user-friendly, and won't win me any points. So instead, we're going to change the code to use the Artisan facade, so that it will use the same php instance that's already running the site.

[captainhook]

Excellent!

Some servers do require varying PHP versions/have many software running on it simultaneously, so that would be an excellent solution.

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