# Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version "\>= 7.4.0"

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/composer-detected-issues-in-your-platform-your-composer-dependencies-require-a-php-version-7-4-0/23109>\
**Category:** Mautic 4 Install/Upgrade Support\
**Created:** [March 17, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/composer-detected-issues-in-your-platform-your-composer-dependencies-require-a-php-version-7-4-0/23109 "2022-03-17T19:30:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![kjxavier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/kjxavier/32/7095_2.png) [@kjxavier](https://forum.mautic.org/u/kjxavier)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/composer-detected-issues-in-your-platform-your-composer-dependencies-require-a-php-version-7-4-0/23109/1 "2022-03-17T19:30:24Z")

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**Windows 7**  
_My PHP version is_ : 8.1.4 in Windows  
_My PHP version is_ : 8.0.6 in Xampp  
_My PHP version is_ : 8.1.2 in Hostinger VPS Cyberpaner control panel Hosting Server

_My MySQL version is_ (delete as applicable): 5

**Installing Errors**  
_I am_ (delete as applicable): Installing  
_installing via_ (delete as applicable) : Web

_These errors are showing in the installer_ : Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version “\>= 7.4.0”.

_These errors are showing in the Mautic log_ :

**Your problem**  
_My problem is_ : As mentioned above I get a composer issue.

_Steps I have tried to fix the problem_ : I made a different subdomain and changed the PHP version to 8.1 in another folder but the error: Mautic does not support 8 and asked to downgrade PHP

Can someone please help me asap

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**Author:** ![rgbguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/rgbguy/32/652_2.png) [@rgbguy](https://forum.mautic.org/u/rgbguy)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/composer-detected-issues-in-your-platform-your-composer-dependencies-require-a-php-version-7-4-0/23109/2 "2022-03-18T01:57:51Z")

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> **[Requirements](https://www.mautic.org/download/requirements)**
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> For an optimal Mautic experience, it is recommended your servers meet the following requirements.
> 
> Supported PHP versions per Mautic version

Unfortunately, PHP8 is not an option yet.  
4.0 7.4 (8.0 support is currently WIP)

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**Author:** ![aerendir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/aerendir/32/1050_2.png) [@aerendir](https://forum.mautic.org/u/aerendir)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/composer-detected-issues-in-your-platform-your-composer-dependencies-require-a-php-version-7-4-0/23109/3 "2022-03-18T13:16:15Z")

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The error is telling you that to install the tree of dependencies you need to use PHP7.4.

To ignore the requirement (don’t do this on production) you can use “—ignore-platform-req php”

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**Author:** ![chabgood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/chabgood/32/13310_2.png) [@chabgood](https://forum.mautic.org/u/chabgood)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/composer-detected-issues-in-your-platform-your-composer-dependencies-require-a-php-version-7-4-0/23109/4 "2025-07-17T19:37:53Z")

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I am seeing in the UI, `Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 8.2.0".`

When i execute `php -v` it is 3.3.23