How to know Laravel version and where is it defined?

Question

How to know Laravel version and where is it defined?

Is Laravel version is defined inside my application directory or somewhere in global server side directory?

Answer 1

If you want to know the user version in your code, then you can use using app() helper function

app()->version();

It is defined in this file ../src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php

Hope it will help :)

Answer 2

Step 1:

go to: /vendor/laravel/framework/src.Illuminate/Foundation:

Step 2:

Open application.php file

Step 3:

Search for "version". The below indicates the version.

Answer 3

Yet another way is to read the composer.json file, but it can end with wildcard character *

Answer 4

In your Laravel deployment it would be

/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php

to see who changed your Laravel version look at what's defined in composer.json. If you have "laravel/framework": "5.4.*", then it will update to the latest after composer update is run. Composer.lock is the file that results from running a composer update, so really see who last one to modify the composer.json file was (hopefully you have that in version control). You can read more about it here https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md

Answer 5

  1)  php artisan -V

  2)  php artisan --version

AND its define at the composer.json file

"require": {
        ...........
        "laravel/framework": "^6.2",
        ...........
    },

Answer 6

CASE - 1

Run this command in your project..

php artisan --version  

You will get version of laravel installed in your system like this..

CASE - 2

Also you can check laravel version in the composer.json file in root directory.