I am going to start working on existing Laravel project and I checked Laravel version using 2 ways:

1. I run php artisan --version and Laravel Installer 4.2.10 got printed.
2. I checked composer.json file and there is laravel/framework": "^8.0.

Which one is real one? Thank you in advance.

PS: This question is not about how to. It is about why 2 different method return 2 different answer.

CodePudding user response：

Search in composer.lock "name": "laravel/framework", for see current installed version

CodePudding user response：

• using php artisan --version to check via CLI.

• app()->version() to print version in blade template.

CodePudding user response：

To answer your question, the Laravel Installer is the composer laravel installer which allows devs to run

laravel new blog

instead of

composer create-project laravel/laravel:^8.0 blog

Laravel Framework is the one that will advise what version of laravel you are running