Livewire: Typed Properties Causing Syntax Errors

[nickpoulos]

Description

Whenever I use a PHP 7.4 typed property inside a component, regardless of the type, I am getting:

If I remove the word 'string' in front of $user, everything works again. I also tried to initialize the var as suggested elsewhere.

My component and template are very minimal.

Stripped-down, copy-pastable code snippets

App\Http\Livewire\Profile.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Livewire;

use App\Models\User;
use Livewire\Component;

class Profile extends Component
{
    public string $user;

    public function render()
    {
        return view('livewire.profile');
    }
}

resources/views/livewire/profile.blade.php

<div>hey</div>

Context

• Livewire version: 2.2.3
• Laravel version: 8.14
• Alpine version: 2.7.3
• Browser: Chrome 87.0.4280.67

[joshhanley]

@nickpoulos can you double check that your web requests are actually being handled by php 7.4?

In your routes/web.php put phpinfo(); at the top and check what the browser says it is using.

[nickpoulos]

@joshhanley wow you hit the nail on the head, thank you! It did not really seem like an Alpine error tbh.

I am running the latest version of Homestead which is supposed to run 7.4 by default, and I even checked php -v to make sure. But for some reason CLI was using 7.4 and FPM was using 7.3.

I am all set now.

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