How do I upgrade PHP in Mac OS X

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I feel this is an awfully obtuse question to ask  but strangely  this problem is poorly documented    I would like to upgrade PHP  but there are several problems     There is no built-in package manager  MacPorts doesn t recognize php as an installed package because it didn t install PHP itself  Running locate php indicates there are probably many dependencies  I don t know HOW php was installed  as it was included with the OS  so I don t know whether I should install from source or download binaries  I also don t know the proper way to uninstall the previous version without breaking dependencies    I am running on Leopard  I have a feeling Apple doesn t want you to upgrade  Would buying Snow Leopard and upgrade solve this problem  and future ones like it

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You can use curl to update php version   curl -s http   php-osx liip ch install sh   bash -s 7 3   Last Step   export PATH  usr local php5 bin  PATH   Check the upgraded version  php -v

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Upgrading to Snow Leopard won t solve the your primary problem of keeping PHP up to date  Apple doesn t always keep the third party software that it bundles up to date with OS updates  And relying on Apple to get you the bug fix   security update you need is asking for trouble    Additionally  I would recommend installing through MacPorts  and doing the config necessary to use it instead of Apple s PHP  rather than try to upgrade the Apple supplied PHP in place  Anything you do to  usr bin risks being overwritten by some future Apple update

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to upgrade php7 to latest stable version  brew upgrade php7  or for php5 X to latest stable version  brew upgrade php56   use brew list to check installed version

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You may want to check out Marc Liyanage s PHP package  It comes in a nice Mac OS X installer package that you can double-click  He keeps it pretty up to date   http   php-osx liip ch   Also  although upgrading to Snow Leopard won t help you do PHP updates in the future  it will probably give you a newer version of PHP  I m running OS X 10 6 2 and it has PHP 5 3 0

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Option  1  As recommended here  this site provides a convenient  up-to-date one liner   This doesn t overwrite the base version of PHP on your system  but instead installs it cleanly in  usr local php5   Option  2  My preferred method is to just install via Homebrew

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Saving on keystrokes  this worked on MacOS Sierra     brew install homebrew php php71     usr local opt php71 bin php -v PHP 7 1 4  cli   built  Apr 14 2017 15 02 16    NTS   Copyright  c  1997-2017 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3 1 0  Copyright  c  1998-2017 Zend Technologies

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There is no built-in package manager  MacPorts doesn t recognize php as an installed package because it didn t install PHP itself    You could still install it with MacPorts  sudo port install php52  or whichever version you want  will install PHP   It won t overwrite the Apple-supplied version  It ll install it under  opt local  You can add  opt local to the beginning of your  PATH  and use the MacPorts version in your Apache config

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best way to upgrade is  compile it from source   see this tutorial that may be helful for you   http   www computersnyou com 2012 09 how-to-upgrade-php-in-mac-osx-compiling html

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I use this  https   github com Homebrew homebrew-php  The command is     xcode-select --install    brew tap homebrew dupes   brew tap homebrew versions   brew tap homebrew homebrew-php    brew options php56   brew install php56   Then config in your  bash profile or  bashrc    Homebrew PHP CLI export PATH    brew --prefix homebrew php php56  bin  PATH

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Check your current php version in terminal with the following command     php -v   You see current php version in terminal  and next command run in terminal if you want to upgrade your php version with php concat with version liked as     brew install homebrew php php71   Please restart terminal if you finished php version upgrade installed and run the command     php -v   Now you see the current php version in terminal    thank

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Use this Command   curl -s http   php-osx liip ch install sh   bash -s 7 0

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I think one simple way to do it  is   1 - Check you where is your current PHP     which php    usr local bin php   You see  Usually  our commands that we run is a link in  usr local bin so     2 - Unlink this current link of PHP  unlink  usr local bin php   If you prefere  before unlink it  check the path and then remove php files  do ls -al  usr local bin   grep php and then rm -rf into desired path   3 - Install PHP 7 1  curl -s http   php-osx liip ch install sh   bash -s 7 1   4 - Create new link  using php 7 1 bin that you have installed   ln  usr local php5-7 1 9-20170914-100859 bin php  usr local bin php   Like I said  its a simple way I think

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Before I go on  I have the latest version  v5 0 15  of OS X Server  yes  horrible  I know   however  the web server seems to work A-OK   I searched high and low for days trying to update  or at least get Apache to point to  a new version of PHP  My mcrypt did not work  along with other extensions and I installed and reinstalled PHP countless times from http   php-osx liip ch  and other tutorials until I finally noticed a tid-bit of information written in a comment in one of the many different  conf files OS X Server keeps which was that OS X Server loads it s own custom  conf file before it loads the Apache httpd conf  located at  etc apache2 httpd conf   The server file is located    Library Server Web Config apache2 httpd server app conf   When you open this file  you have to comment out this line like so    LoadModule php5 module libexec apache2 libphp5 so   Then add in the correct path  which should already be installed if you have installed via the http   php-osx liip ch  link    LoadModule php5 module  usr local php5 libphp5 so   After this modification  my PHP finally loaded the correct PHP installation  That being said  if things go wonky  it may be because OS X is made to work off the native installation of PHP at the time of OS X installation  To revert  just undo the change above   Anyway  hopefully this is helpful for anyone else spending countless hours on this

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