How can I add additional PHP versions to MAMP

Question

The current version of MAMP that I have only has php 5 2 17 and 5 4 4  I need 5 3 X  Is there a way to add additional versions that can be selected in the MAMP interfaces php preferences  This is for the free version of MAMP  not MAMP PRO   Thanks

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First stop the Server if its running  Go to   Applications MAMP bin    rename the PHP Version you don t need  MAMP is only allowed to use 2 PHP Versions   e g    php5 2 17   Now MAMP will use the php versions that are left  Go to the MAMP Manager and then settings  then switch to the php version you need   One problem with this solution I encountered was the httpd process  took me a while to figure that out xD   If you have the httpd process running in the background  then the php switch won t work  until you stop those processes  sometimes MAMP has an awkward problem to stop the server  thats why this process can be still alive   Start your Activity Monitor on your Mac  Shortcut  Press Command Space and type in activity      go to the Search Function and type in  httpd   close all those processes  Now you should be able to switch your PHP Version with the MAMP Manager

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Found a quick fix in the MAMP forums   Basically it seems MAMP is only allowing 2 versions of PHP to show up  Quick fix  rename the folders you re not bothered about using  for me this meant adding an  X  to my  Applications MAMP bin php php5 4 10 X folder  Now 5 2 17 and 5 3 20 show up in the mamp prefs   Done   Edit - if the PHP version you require isn t in the PHP folder  you can download the version you require from http   www mamp info en downloads   Edit - MAMP don t seem to provide links to the alternative PHP versions on the download page any more  Use WayBackMachine https   web archive org web 20180131074715 http   www mamp info en downloads

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The file  Applications MAMP bin mamp mamp conf json holds the MAMP configuration  look for the section        name    PHP      version    5 6 28  7 0 20      which lists the the php versions which will be displayed in the GUI  obviously you need to have downloaded the PHP version from the MAMP site first and placed it in  Applications MAMP bin php for this to work

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Maybe easy like this   Compiled binaries of the PHP interpreter can be found at http   www mamp info en  downloads index html   Drop this downloaded folder into your  Applications MAMP bin php  directory  Close and re-open your MAMP PRO application  Your new PHP version should now appear in the PHP drop down menu  MAMP PRO will only support PHP versions from the downloads page

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Additional Version of PHP can be installed directly from the APP  using MAMP PRO v5 at least   Here s how  All Steps   MAMP PRO -- gt  Preferences -- gt  click  Check Now  to check for updates  even if you have automatic updates enabled   -- gt  click  Show PHP Versions  -- gt  Install as needed  Step-by-step screenshots

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If you need to be able to switch between more than two versions at a time  you can use the following to change the version of PHP manually   MAMP automatically rewrites the following line in your  Applications MAMP conf apache httpd conf file when it restarts based on the settings in preferences  You can comment out this line and add the second one to the end of your file     Comment this out just under all the modules loaded   LoadModule php5 module         Applications MAMP bin php php5 x x modules libphp5 so   At the bottom of the httpd conf file  you ll see where additional configurations are loaded from the extra folder  Add this to the bottom of the httpd conf file    PHP Version Change Include  Applications MAMP conf apache extra httpd-php conf   Then create a new file here   Applications MAMP conf apache extra httpd-php conf    Uncomment the version of PHP you want to run with MAMP   LoadModule php5 module  Applications MAMP bin php php5 2 17 modules libphp5 so   LoadModule php5 module  Applications MAMP bin php php5 3 27 modules libphp5 so   LoadModule php5 module  Applications MAMP bin php php5 4 19 modules libphp5 so LoadModule php5 module  Applications MAMP bin php php5 5 3 modules libphp5 so   After you have this setup  just uncomment the version of PHP you want to use and restart the servers

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MAMP takes only two highest versions of the PHP in the following folder  Application MAMP bin php  As you can see here highest versions are 7 0 10 and 5 6 25   Now 7 0 10 version is removed and as you can see highest two versions are  5 6 25 and 5 5 38 as shown in preferences

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The easiest solution I found is to just rename the php folder version as such    Shut down the servers Rename the folder containing the php version that you don t need in  Applications MAMP bin php  php7 3 9 --   php7 3 9   That way only two of them will be read by MAMP  Done

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