laravel/docs — pull request #712 by citricsquid (2014-04-20 07:03:18+00:00)
Title: PHP >= 5.4.0 required

Laravel core packages (support, http, eloquent etc.) make use of traits which aren't available < PHP 5.4.0, updated the installation guide to require PHP 5.4.0 instead of PHP 5.3.7.