PHP

laravel upgrade php version

// Go to your composer.json file in your project root
// Then search for the below configuration. And change 
// it to whatever version you need
Like this :
"php": "7.0.7"
or something like this :
"php": "^7.3|^8.0",

//Then run composer install
composer install

update php version in laravel

"config": {
    "platform": {
        "php": "7.0.7"
    },
    "preferred-install": "dist",
    "optimize-autoloader": true
}

run composer install

laravel version global upgrade

composer global require "laravel/installer:^4.0"

laravel 7 upgrade

$>which composer
/usr/local/bin/composer

$>php -d memory_limit=512M /usr/local/bin/composer update
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