How to change preloaded php version to MAMP in Mac/OSX

Question

I am using Mac/OSX for the first time and I have installed MAMP and set PHP Standard Version as 7.1.6 but when I have run php -v command in the terminal I am getting below details:

PHP 5.6.30 (cli) (built: Feb  7 2017 16:18:37) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies

Can you please guide how to use 7.1.6 version instead of 5.6.30.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Instructions to Change PHP Installation

First, Lets find out what version of PHP we're running (To find out if it's the default version).

To do that, Within the terminal, Fire this command:

which php

This should output the path to the default PHP install which comes preinstalled by Mac OS X, by default it has to be (Assuming you've not changed it before):

/usr/bin/php

Now, We just need to swap this over to the PHP that is installed with MAMP, which is located at /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.1.6/bin

To do this, We need to edit the .bash_profile and add the MAMP version of PHP to the PATH variable.

Follow these simple steps:

Within the Terminal, run

vim ~/.bash_profile

Type i and then paste the following at the top of the file:

export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.1.6/bin:$PATH

Hit ESC, Type :wq, and hit Enter

In Terminal, run source ~/.bash_profile

In Terminal, type in which php again and look for the updated string. If everything was successful, It should output the new path to MAMP PHP install.