install ext-zip for Mac

Question

I am trying to run composer update and I get the following errors:

Problem 1
    - The requested PHP extension ext-zip * is missing from your sy         


        

Answer 1

i know this thread has true answered, i do those with this approach :

1. brew link php@7.3 it is showing hint to using
   echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

2. in terminal, echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc enter

3. in terminal, echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc enter

4. next execution this : source ~/.zshrc

5. execution which php the results must show /usr/local/opt/php@7.3/bin/php

6. try again composer update, if show Allowed memory size of 1610612736 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4096 bytes) in phar:///usr/local/Cellar/composer/1.9.2/bin/composer/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/RuleWatchGraph.php on line 52 please change php.ini limit with memory_limit = -1

7. try search php.ini, type in terminal /usr/local/opt/php@7.3/bin/php --ini , the results must show: Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /usr/local/etc/php/7.3 Loaded Configuration File: /usr/local/etc/php/7.3/php.ini Scan for additional .ini files in: /usr/local/etc/php/7.3/conf.d Additional .ini files parsed: /usr/local/etc/php/7.3/conf.d/ext-opcache.ini

8. nano /usr/local/etc/php/7.3/php.ini, append memory_limit =-1,save

9. restart php

10. re-execution composer update.

Hope my answer can help you.

Answer 2

Following command fixed the issue on macOS Catalina

brew link php@7.3 --force

Answer 3

Instead of force linking you can also fix the problem in MacOS Catalina

by adding the php binary path to your bash profile e.g.:

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/sbinbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

Answer 4

This worked for me

brew update brew install php@7.3 brew link php@7.3 brew link php@7.3 --force

Hope it helps

Answer 5

If brew link is not working for you, check your php version installed by:

ls /usr/local/opt/php*

Here, you will see a version as such:

/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/bin:$PATH

Should give you an output like:

/usr/local/opt/php@7.3:
INSTALL_RECEIPT.json        include
LICENSE                     lib
NEWS                        pecl
README.md                   sbin
bin                         share
homebrew.mxcl.php@7.3.plist

Now you just need to link that to your $PATH which can be done as:

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Note: I am using .zshrc because that is my terminal setup. If yours is bash, use accordingly.

You can check which version of php is now linked to your MacOS by running:

which php

This should give you an output of:

/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/bin/php

That's it. Now if you try composer update, it should not give you the extension issue.

Source (part of it): https://medium.com/@jjdanek/installing-php-extensions-on-mac-after-homebrew-acfffffd6be602

Answer 6

In my case I had to simply

brew link --overwrite php