Fatal error in UrlSigner

[OctaneInteractive]

Hi, I'm still learning how to use Laravel, so it's possible I've got something wrong.

I've followed the installation and configuration instructions, and I've been over them several times to check that everything is correct.

In: app/Http/Controllers/VenuesManageController.php I have:

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

use App\Exceptions\Handler;

use UrlSigner;

use App\Venues;

class VenuesManageController extends Controller
{

	public function get_url()
	{
		echo UrlSigner::sign('https://myapp.com/user/1/unsubscribe', 1);
	}

}

But I get an error:

FatalErrorException

syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ';' or '{'
in UrlSigner.php (line 17)

What's wrong?

[sebastiandedeyne]

Hi, looks like you're using an older PHP version that doesn't understand the packages syntax. You'll need to upgrade to PHP 7.0+

[OctaneInteractive]

I ran: php --version and got:

PHP 7.1.8-2

After a bit of investigation, the CLI is using 7, while Apache is using 5.6