Homebrew update to PHP - Installed newer version but still showing PHP 5.4

Question

I am tying to update the PHP on my Mac OS X machine from 5.4 to 5.6. I am using Homebrew. I installed PHP 5.6 using Homebrew successfully: brew install php56

However, when I rebooted the unix shell, and typed the command php -v, it still shows PHP 5.4.10.

I ran: export PATH="$(brew --prefix homebrew/php/php56)/bind:$PATH".

However, the php -v has not changed to 5.6. What can I do to get my system to use 5.6? Thanks!

Answer 1

Mac OSX has an own php installed. The same for Python and Ruby. With Homebrew, you installed a new/extra version of php (not an update of the pre-installed version) which runs perfect separately.

The php command points to the native Mac OSX php. If you run Homebrew, the webserver will use his own php version.