FatalErrorException in Inflector.php line 265: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ';' or '{'

Question

I went to update composer using

composer update

after update having the following error:

FatalErrorException in Inf

Answer 1

It's a PHP version issue, update to PHP 7.0 and doctrine/inflector will work properly because doctrine/inflector 1.20 and above require PHP 7.

But if you want to stay at your current PHP version, you can downgrade the doctrine/inflector version by running the following commands:

1. Delete the composer.lock file

   rm -f Composer.lock

2. Delete the vendor

   rm -R -f vendor

3. composer install

4. Install the doctrine/inflector according to your php version

   composer require doctrine/inflector:1.1.0

doctrine/inflector:1.1.0 supports PHP 5.6 & above. If you have another version of php, you can refer to this link