Package for when you can't use Bcrypt in Laravel 4. This drops the minimum PHP version for Laravel 4 to 5.3.2.
Add the following to the "require" section of your composer.json file:
"robclancy/laravel4-hashing": "1.0.x"Then run composer update like usual.
Go into app/config/app.php and find Illuminate\Hashing\HashServiceProvider. Change Illuminate to Robbo. So it will then be Robbo\Hashing\HashServiceProvider.
That's it, you are now using Sha512 hashing and compatible with PHP 5.3.2+


