How to override the path of PHP to use the MAMP path

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After screwing up entirely my PHP configuration on MAC trying to get the SOAP module working  -bash   usr bin php  No such file or directory       I now have to use MAMP but each time I have to type the path   Applications MAMP bin php5 3 bin php to do command line    How to just type php instead the entire path on MAC   I double checked and i do not have a file named  profile nor bash profile  Thanks  PS  Here s what output echo  PATH     echo  PATH  Applications MAMP Library bin   Applications MAMP bin php5 bin   opt local bin  opt local sbin  usr bin  bin  usr sbin  sbin  usr local bin  usr local git bin  usr X11 bin

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The latest version of MAMP  Version 5   offers an easy way to make the MAMP PHP version available to the command line  Just select  PHP  in the the side bar menu and check  Make this version available on the command line   Easy peasy  See attached screenshot

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In your home folder  Users David for exmaple  you can create a  bash profile  In here you can export variables and then add them to your path   Open up the file to edit it in your favourite editor  I use vim   Then you can add in your path  export MAMP PHP  Applications MAMP bin php php5 3 6 bin export PATH   MAMP PHP  PATH    You want your bit ahead of the  PATH as that already includes  usr bin which is where the system PHP lives  So the system will always find your MAMP version first   Save this file and then reboot your Terminal and you ll see that you should get your MAMP version   To test I use php -v as OSX Lion uses 5 3 10 and my MAMP is using 5 3 6 You can also test using which php which will output the path to your current php executable

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The fact that the previously accepted answer refers to php 5 3 6  while the current version of MAMP ships with 7 2 1 as the default  as of early 2018   points out that this is not a very sustainable solution  You can make your path update automatically by adding an extra line to your  bash profile or  zshrc to get the latest version of PHP from  Applications MAMP bin php  and export that to your path  Here   s how I do it    Use MAMP version of PHP PHP VERSION  command ls  Applications MAMP bin php    sort -n   tail -1  export PATH  Applications MAMP bin php   PHP VERSION  bin  PATH   Use source    bash profile after making your changes to make sure they take effect   As others have mentioned  you will likely also want to modify your shell to use MAMP   s mysql executable  which is located in  Applications MAMP Library bin  However  I do not recommend exporting that folder  because there are a bunch of other executables there  like libtool  that you probably don   t want to be giving priority to over your system installed versions  This issue prevented me from installing a node package recently  libxmljs   as documented here  My solution was to define and export mysql and mysqladmin as functions    Export MAMP MySQL executables as functions   Makes them usable from within shell scripts  unlike an alias  mysql          Applications MAMP Library bin mysql  quot    quot    mysqladmin          Applications MAMP Library bin mysqladmin  quot    quot    export -f mysql export -f mysqladmin  I used functions instead of aliases  because aliases don   t get passed to child processes  or at least not in the context of a shell script  The only downside I   ve found is that running which mysql and which mysqladmin will no longer return anything  which is a bummer  If you want to check which mysql is being used and make sure everything is copacetic  use mysql --version instead  Note   julianromera points out that zsh doesn   t support exporting functions  so in that case  you   re best off using an alias  like alias mysql   Applications MAMP Library bin mysql   Just be aware that your aliases might not be available from subshells  like when executing a shell script

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Probably too late to comment but here s what I did when I ran into issues with setting php PATH for my XAMPP installation on Mac OSX   Open up the file  bash profile  found under current user folder  using the available text editor  Add the path as below    export PATH  path to your php installation bin leave rest of the stuff untouched   PATH   Save your  bash profile and re-start your Mac    Explanation  Terminal   Mac tries to run a search on the PATHS it knows about  in a hope of finding the program  when user initiates a program from the  Terminal   hence the trick here is to make the terminal find the php  the user intends to  by pointing it to the user s version of PHP at some bin folder  installed by the user   Worked for me     P S I m still a lost sheep around my new Computer

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you might still run into mysql binary not being found in that manner  open terminal  type touch    bash profile  open    bash profile   edit as follows below  save  quite and restart terminal or alternately  source    bash profile   to execute new PATH without restarting terminal  and in the fashion of the DavidYell s post above  also add the following  You can stack various variables by exporting them followed by a single PATH export which I demonstrated below  export MAMP PHP  Applications MAMP bin php php5 6 2 bin export MAMP BINS  Applications MAMP Library bin export USERBINS   bins export PATH   USERBINS  MAMP PHP  MAMP BINS  PATH    cheers

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To compliment the current accepted answer  if you assume that MAMP uses the most recent version of php5 as the default  you can add grep  php5  in the middle   PHP VERSION   ls  Applications MAMP bin php    sort -n   grep  php5    tail -1    and you are guaranteed to get the most recent php5 regardless of MAMP version

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This is not an ideal solution as you have to manage two ini files however  I managed to work around this on windows by copying the php ini file in mamp from the conf folder to your active php version in the bin folder    MAMP INSTALL  conf  ACTIVE PHP VERSION  php ini  copy to    MAMP INSTALL  bin php  ACTIVE PHP VERSION

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If you have to type   Applications MAMP bin php5 3 bin php   in your command line then add    Applications MAMP bin php5 3 bin   to your PATH to be able to call php from anywhere

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For XAMPP users you can use this     Use XAMPP version of PHP export PATH  Applications XAMPP xamppfiles bin  PATH source    bash profile   And you can check it with   php -v

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Everytime you save MAMP config  PHP section   it saves the current version of PHP on    profile file and creates the alias for php  pear and pecl  to point to the current configured version   Note  you need to check  Make this version available on the command line  option in MAMP   However  you need to refresh your terminal  open another session  to get this file refreshed  You can also type source    profile to refesh the aliases manually   If you want to extract this curerent version in a PHP VERSION variable - as commented above - for further use  you can do   export PHP VERSION  grep  alias php     profile   cut -d    -f6   cut -c4-    And then you ll have  PHP VERSION available with the current version of MAMP   Finally  if you want to run your php using the current configured version on mamp  you just need to add to your    bash profile the following   export PHP VERSION  grep  alias php     profile   cut -d    -f6   cut -c4-  export PHPRC   Library Application Support appsolute MAMP PRO conf    point to your php ini folder to use the same php settings export PATH  Applications MAMP bin php php PHP VERSION bin  PATH   Now  even script that relies on  usr bin env php will read the correct version from Mamp config

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Sometimes  it s easier to do this   sudo ln -s  Applications MAMP bin php php5 6 10 bin php  usr bin php   Mamps version of PHP at the time of posting was php5 6 10  so make sure you change that to the version you re using   You ll be up in a jiffy

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This one worked for me   sudo mv  usr bin php  usr bin  php sudo ln -s  Application XAMPP xamppfiles bin php  usb bin php

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I found that on Mavericks 10 8 there wasn t a  bash profile and my paths were located in  etc paths  In order to have the new path  whether this is a mamp or brew install of php  take effect it needs to be above the default  usr bin php in this paths file  eg    Applications MAMP bin php php5 3 6 bin  usr bin    AFter the change  open a new terminal window and run  which php  that should now point to your updated path

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