problems installing Zend Framework 2 in 1 and 1 shared hosting

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I'm trying to deploy on a 1&1 shared linux hosting the Zend Skeleton Application that I obtained from github (https://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication) via a SSH connection.

I have those files already in the server, but when doing the installation's last step that's explained in github (php composer.phar install) I get the following error: 

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.9
Content-type: text/html

<br />
<b>Parse error</b>:  syntax error, unexpected '<' in <b>/homepages/45/d*******/htdocs/zend_test/ZendSkeletonApplication/composer.phar</b> on line <b>75</b><br />

I can see that the PHP version that shows there is 4.4.9, but I've set up the server to have php 5 (phpinfo() shows 5.4.7). I've also included an .htaccess file in the root of the installation's folder with the AddType x-mapp-php5 .php instruction, as explained here, but that doesn't seem to do anything.

EDIT: Files structure as requested below:

[root]
    [vendor]
      [ZF2]
         [bin]
         [demos]
         [library]
         [resources]
         [vendor]
         composer.json
         LICENSE.txt
         README.md
      .gitignore
      README.md`
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deploymentzend-framework2

3 Answers

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Try /usr/local/bin/php5 composer.phar install

Otherwise 1&1 would be the best people to contact for gaining access to PHP5 on the command line.

0
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So instead of following the directions in github I downloaded the skeleton app from there and manually added the ZF2 library in the vendors folder and all worked fine

0
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The default PHP executable is PHP4 (4.4.9) for whatever reasons. You have to manually select the right PHP executable to get Composer running. There's a php5 executable at /usr/bin/php5 but it is 5.2.17 at the day of writing this, which is not sufficient to run composer, minimum is 5.3.2.

They also have a newer PHP 5 executable comically called php6 located at /usr/bin/php6 which is currently version 5.4.19. This one will do the job.

To install composer use this:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php6

To use composer use this:

php6 composer.phar