CSS and JS not loading

Question

When I run in my terminal: php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

which is supposed to be the fix for css and js not loading, I get this:

PHP Parse error: parse error in /Magento/vendor/magento/framework/ObjectManager/Factory/AbstractFactory.php on line 93

I'm on a Mac using the main local web server. Not MAMP. Please someone tell me how to fix this before I give up on Magento.

PHP version 5.5.30, and I've changed root links in db to 127.0.0.1, Magento version 2.1.4 with data.

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to upgrade your PHP version to at least 5.6.5. You can see in the DevDocs that Magento no longer supports PHP 5.5.

Answer 2

This is the function that assert error in your case.

protected function createObject($type, $args)
{
 return new $type(...array_values($args));
}

You can see three dots (...) in the call new $type(...array_values($args));. This three dots token is know as Variable Argument List which is available only for php versions greater than 5.6.

So what you need to do here is upgrade your php version 5.6.5 or later as per the M2 version you are using.

If you can upgrade to php 7.x version, then that will be great.