Updating php version on mac

Question

I want to update php version, currently I have 5.5.38 and I want 7.1

What I tried so far is using this command:

curl -s https://php-osx.liip.ch/insta         


        

Answer 1

Use Homebrew:

I would probably recommend installing homebrew to manage such installations for you. With that installed you can just run the following command to install php7.1

brew update
brew install php@71

Answer 2

Try to use below command

brew update brew upgrade php or brew reinstall php

Answer 3

try to use the command, its working fine with me

curl -s https://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 7.3

Answer 4

In case you guys run all install commands above but when checking the PHP version, it is still linking to the old version. So you guys may want to update the PATH.

In my case, I open the .bash_profile which located in HOME directory by command:

nano ~/.bash_profile

Then, I add the path to the new version of PHP:

PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.4/bin:<other_paths>

Finally, run source ~/.bash_profile command to refresh the terminal window and checking the PHP version again.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

You can brew upgrade php7 or brew uninstall old php version.

Last, I recommend you brew install php-version, php-version can help you change your php version

Answer 6

Install php

brew install php@7.2

Install the required PHP to your PATH

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.2/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.2/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

Then make sure it's all working

php -v
php --version

This command will show you where your ini file is loaded

php --ini