Library not loaded error after brew install php56

Question

I\'m upgrading from php5.5 to php5.6 on OSX Mavericks using homebrew. I run

brew install php56

Everything runs and completes fine but when

Answer 1

In my case, it was a symlink issue with the previous installation. Everything was fine after running

brew link --overwrite php56

P.S. Before running with --overwrite, try without. If you get the error below like I did, then go ahead.

Linking /usr/local/Cellar/php56/5.6.3...
Error: Could not symlink bin/pear
Target /usr/local/bin/pear
is a symlink belonging to php55. You can unlink it:
  brew unlink php55

To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
  brew link --overwrite php56

To list all files that would be deleted:
  brew link --overwrite --dry-run php56