Upgrade fails with PHP 7.3.19

[murugappan]

Hi,

We setup a server with PHP 7.3.19 and MySQL 5.7 as required by ESPOCRM 5.8. Our current version is 5.7.11. When perform a command line upgrade we are getting an error that i am unable resolve. Please see the screen cap attached.

[yuri]

Hi,

It seems that your php for CLI is of old version. You can check it with:

php -v

[esforim]

How do you even figure that out from that error.

[yuri]

PHP didn't support string for type hinting in older versions.

[Maximus]

Hi esforim,

It is one of the most common issues. When you are using EspoCRM via browser, you interact with webserver side PHP. No doubts that in this case the webserver has PHP 7.3.19.
But when you fire some command via CLI it interacts with CLI PHP. So very often the PHP CLI version is lower and not correspond to the EspoCRM requirements.

[murugappan]

Thank you for the assistance. We resolved it. The hosting provider switched the version as you advised.