Your PHP version does not satisfy that requirement [closed]

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We use the following for our local development environment. When we run composer require 'drupal/module_name:^1.1', we get the following error message. We have doubled checked that all settings for Acquia Dev Desktop are set to php7.1.11, but still getting this message.

Error Message:

Problem 1

- symfony/browser-kit v4.1.7 requires php ^7.1.3 -> your PHP version (5.6.32) does not satisfy that requirement.
- symfony/browser-kit v4.1.7 requires php ^7.1.3 -> your PHP version (5.6.32) does not satisfy that requirement.
- symfony/browser-kit v4.1.7 requires php ^7.1.3 -> your PHP version (5.6.32) does not satisfy that requirement.
- Installation request for symfony/browser-kit (locked at v4.1.7) -> satisfiable by symfony/browser-kit[v4.1.7].

Local Development environment:

1. Acquia Dev Desktop
2. Dev Desktop set to php v7.1.1
3. Using git bash by navigating to ~/Sites/local-dev/dev

Running php --version in the ~/Sites/local-dev/dev (which is one level above docroot) we get php 5.6.32

Why am I still getting the your PHP version (5.6.32) does not satisfy that requirement even though Acquia Dev Desktop is set to phpv7.1.11?

Answer 1

After searching, I found out that I had an outdated composer so I did the following steps and now composer is seeing the correct php version.

Previous version of composer was 1.6.3 and php version 5.6.32

Steps:

1. ran composer self-update
2. ran composer diagnose and observed the following below

Checking platform settings: OK

Checking git settings: OK

Checking http connectivity to packagist: OK

Checking https connectivity to packagist: OK

Checking github.com oauth access: OK

Checking disk free space: OK

Checking pubkeys: Tags Public Key Fingerprint: xxxxx

Dev Public Key Fingerprint: xxxxx

OK Checking composer version: OK

Composer version: 1.8.0

PHP version: 7.1.11

PHP binary path: C:\path\to\devdesktop\php7_1\php.exe