title: Installing Laravel - php version
body: <p>I'm trying to install Laravel but when creating a project with (composer /composer create-project laravel/laravel /my-path/), but I get these errors:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of
    packages.</p>
    
    <p>Problem 1</p>
    
    <ul>
    <li>laravel/framework v4.2.9 requires php >=5.4.0 -> no matching package found.</li>
    <li>laravel/framework v4.2.8 requires php >=5.4.0 -> no matching package found.</li>
    <li>laravel/framework v4.2.7 requires php >=5.4.0 -> no matching package found.</li>
    <li>laravel/framework v4.2.6 requires php >=5.4.0 -> no matching package found.</li>
    <li>laravel/framework v4.2.5 requires php >=5.4.0 -> no matching package found.</li>
    <li>laravel/framework v4.2.4 requires php >=5.4.0 -> no matching package found.</li>
    <li>laravel/framework v4.2.3 requires php >=5.4.0 -> no matching package found.</li>
    <li>laravel/framework v4.2.2 requires php >=5.4.0 -> no matching package found.</li>
    <li>laravel/framework v4.2.11 requires php >=5.4.0 -> no matching package found.</li>
    <li>laravel/framework v4.2.10 requires php >=5.4.0 -> no matching package found.</li>
    <li>laravel/framework v4.2.1 requires php >=5.4.0 -> no matching package found.</li>
    <li>laravel/framework v4.2.0 requires php >=5.4.0 -> no matching package found.</li>
    <li>Installation request for laravel/framework 4.2.* -> satisfiable by laravel/framework[v4.2.0, v4.2.1, v4.2.10, v4.2.11, v4.2.2, v4.2.3,
    v4.2.4, v4.2.5, v4.2.6, v4.2.7, v4.2.8, v4.2.9].</li>
    </ul>
    
    <p>Potential causes:</p>
    
    <ul>
    <li>A typo in the package name</li>
    <li>The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your minimum-stability setting    see
    <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/topic/composer-dev/_g3ASeIFlrc/discussion" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/d/topic/composer-dev/_g3ASeIFlrc/discussion</a>
    for more details.</li>
    </ul>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I don't understand as I'm using MAMP on Mac OSX 10.8.5 with php 5.5.3 (and also 5.2.17).</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for the help!</p>