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How to fix PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '?', on laravel 5.8 – CPanel

I have hosted by project on shared hosting where my ‘app’ folder i outside public_html The php version is 7.3.5, the issue i am having is.. i am have created a cron job to automatically backup the project database but i keep getting this error on my logs;

[08-Jun-2019 21:04:01 UTC] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '?', expecting variable (T_VARIABLE) in /home/username/app-folder/vendor/zendframework/zend-diactoros/src/functions/marshal_uri_from_sapi.php on line 83

I am using spatie/laravel-backup.

My cron is set as

*   *   *   *   *   php /home/username/app-folder/artisan backup:run
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    Have you checked that file at line 83?

    I did, on Github, I see the only question mark on that line is a ?int in the method signature.

    I googled for 15seconds and found that it’s a new feature of PHP 7.1 . So I checked composer.json of that package and see that it requires "php": "^7.1".

    Are you sure you are running PHP 7.3.5 on that machine? Please put a phpinfo(); exit(); in your public/index.php and double check because that error is a symptom you are running a version of php lower than 7.1

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    The error represents an issue with PHP scripts written for PHP 7.X and above that use an older version of PHP.

    The feature which is used is called a Null Coalesce Operator.

    You can read more about it from PHP’s official documentation here – https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration70.new-features.php#migration70.new-features.null-coalesce-op

    The cron which you’re using is invoking the php binary directly, which is the default version set to be used by WHM/cPanel

    If you know the direct path to your PHP binary you can directly call it when setting up your cron like:

    *   *   *   *   *   php /home/username/app-folder/artisan backup:run

    For servers without CloudLinux:

    *   *   *   *   *   /opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/bin/php /home/username/app-folder/artisan backup:run

    For servers with CloudLinux:

    *   *   *   *   *   /opt/alt/php70/usr/local/bin/php /home/username/app-folder/artisan backup:run

    *Note: You can change hte php70 string in the two example paths above with any other PHP 7.X version installed, for PHP 7.1 – php71 etc..

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