Unintended multiple PHP versions on OSX

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

For an application i'm making i need the PHP stats functions. My OSX (10.11) came with the default PHP 5.5, but i needed 7.0 to install the PECL stats package so i updated my local PHP version to version 7 with the shellscript on liip.ch, like so:

curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 7.0

Now i ended up with, apparently, two php versions.

When i run phpinfo() on a page i get PHP Version 7.0.2 and when (in the terminal) i do php -v i end up with PHP 5.5.27.

It seems that for my web applications the update works (i got a stricter notice for example), but when i try to install the stats package with pecl install stats i get pecl/stats requires PHP (version >= 7.0.0), installed version is 5.5.27

which php gives me just one result: /usr/bin/php

How can i tell my terminal to 'use' php 7 as well?

manpreet 3 years ago

You don't need to uninstall, and it's normal what happened. When you install Apache gets to use the https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/version">version you installed but the env path for console remains with the https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/default">default osx php https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/version">version.

You should read Frequently Asked Questions on the page http://php-osx.liip.ch/. Look for the first item.