Still struggling to get Grav to work: 0 - syntax error, unexpected token "match"

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Hi,

I have managed to get php v8 working and my URL Rewrites working (I think) on my Grav site on Windows 10 IIS 10.0

I downloaded a skeleton, and extracted the files into my wwwroot folder.
When I browse to the site I get the following error: 0 - syntax error, unexpected token "match"

I turned on full backtrace for error logging and the issue seems to lie in the C:\inetpub\wwwroot\grav-skeleton-landio-site\vendor\willdurand\negotiation\src\Negotiation\Negotiator.php file:

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I have tried this with two skeletons, and the error is the same.

Any ideas?

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Hi Nemza,

Iā€™ve got the same error " unexpected token ā€œmatchā€", with a different skeleton (kb).
Iā€™m on WIndows 10 and using php directly.

Did you figure out how to fix this error ?

Thanks for your help.
Raphaƫl.

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I just registed to reply because I had the same problem. The issue is that in php8 the Match word used in willdurand/negotiation is reserved so it fails. You have to use +3.0.0 version.

Edit your composer.json and replace something like:

ā€œwilldurand/negotiationā€: ā€œ^2.3ā€

with:

ā€œwilldurand/negotiationā€: ā€œ^3.0ā€

Then reinstall composer dependencies and it should work.

Reference:

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@phproberto, I think you have indeed pinpointed the issue, butā€¦ Iā€™m not sure your proposed solution is the best way to go.

It appears that skeleton Landio and others are installed with Grav 1.6.28 and not the latest Grav 1.7.+.

Grav 1.6.28 requires "willdurand/negotiation": "2.x-dev", while Grav 1.7.+ requires "willdurand/negotiation": "^3.0",.

My suggestion would be to upgrade Grav to 1.7.+ and upgrade the themes/plugins using:

  • Upgrade Grav: $ bin/gpm selfupgrade
  • Upgrade themes/plugins: $ bin/gpm update
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Thanks @pamtbaau ! You are right. Itā€™s always bettter to upgrade Grav. I use Grav ocasionally and I didnā€™t knew there was a new version shipping v3.0 of the negotiation library.

Thank you for taking the time for writing this. Iā€™m sure it will help other users.

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Thanks for the responses everyone!
Iā€™ve been AFK, and will try to upgrade everything as suggested when I get a chance. Appreciate that the community is so active.