Fatal Error: composer.lock was created for PHP version 7.4 or higher but the current PHP version is 7.3.11

Question

I want to create a Symfony CRUD application. These are the steps I did:

• Downloaded and installed XAMPP from here with PHP 7.3.11 https://www.apachefriends.org/

Answer 1

the php folder that the composer installed in and the the apache server such as xampp, wampp, lampp version are should be the similar.

for exmaple if the version of php that composer is installed with is 7.4 or higher, the apache server version such as xampp, wampp, lampp also should be 7.4 or higher