Mac将PHP升级到5.6，但是CLI php -v得到5.3.28？

Question

I have installed MAMP (comes with PHP 5.5) on my machine. And localhost pointed to /Applications/MAMP/htdocs. The problem happened when I was trying to use composer in terminal to install dependencies in htdocs. Composer complained that PHP must be 5.4 or above.

I guess it complained about PHP comes with OSX. So I have upgraded PHP to 5.6 by

curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 5.6

But when I do

$ php -v

I still get

PHP 5.3.28 (cli) (built: Aug 29 2014 18:52:17) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2013 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Zend Technologies

And Composer is still complaining...

Why is that? And how to fix this?

Answer 1

If you have upgraded using curl, copy & paste the following line of code and press enter.

$ export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH

Now, type $ php -v

If done correctly, it should show the following

PHP 5.6.23 (cli) (built: Jun 26 2016 13:17:47) Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies with Xdebug v2.2.5, Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by Derick Rethans

Answer 2

If you installed PHP 5.6 using Homebrew , this works:

Open Terminal, run open -a TextEdit ~/.bash_profile , then paste this in the end of the file:

# Use Home-brewed PHP 5.6 instead of pre-installed version (5.3)
export PATH="$(brew --prefix homebrew/php/php56)/bin:$PATH"

Save the file and restart Terminal.

Answer 3

Thanks for the help.

It is due to the order in $PATH, like Marc and jkj posted in the comments above.

I can't find a way to re-order the $PATH (did some research but failed to find an easy way), but I am able to fix this by simply removing the Apahce2 previously installed following this post:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/41143/how-to-revert-default-mac-apache-install-to-original

update 9/9/2014: after some research, the following procedure would make PHP version setting system wide.

The procedure comes from this source , please look for the comments down below that page and find user Amtriorix.

I am just copy/paste his solution here:

  The php-cli version is still the Apple version if You do not change it. Your php on apache can be different as the cli version, including used modules ! So beware. As Brian Wynn did mention, of course You can modify Your PATH settings to write into your ~/.profile file the following export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH Most likely a better approach is to make the setting system wide. You should symlink to the right php executable. So: #cd /usr/bin #mv php php.org #ln -s /usr/local/php5/bin/php test if it works: #php -v && php -m && php --ini --> should be php-osx version with related modules... 

Answer 4

1. Look at the terminal history to see where the new version was installed (probably /usr/local)
2. Type 'which php' into terminal to see where current version is located (this should be different that new version)
3. Go to users/username/.bash_profile
4. Replace the old location with the new location, or add another location after the original location, separated by a colon (if you replace, you may break something else, depending on location).

5. Restart terminal, run php -v to test.

    export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local:$PATH"