Change mac os x default php version

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In my mac (version 10.13.6 High Sierra) php -v output is PHP 7.1.32 . I need to update this 7.1 version to 7.3.

i tried to remove this version using brew unlink php7.1 but it's not worked.

How can i upgrade php version.

score 52 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 20 '21 at 02:02

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$ brew upgrade php : ( get the latest homebrew php packages )

$ brew install php@7.4 : ( Install php 7.4 )

$ brew link php@7.4 : ( create an alias to this keg-only version; see comments output during installation )

$ echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.4/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile : ( Add the alias to your path; see comments output during installation )

$ source ~/.bash_profile : ( Reload .bash_profile to use the new settings immediately )

Reference : How to use the php that brew installed?

edited Jan 20 '21 at 02:02

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source ~/.bash_profile works for me, but it keeps on reverting to older version everytime I close the terminal, any idea how to fix this? – Irfandi D. Vendy Dec 30 '21 at 06:24
confirm if your default shell is bash. `echo $SHELL` – emmaakachukwu Dec 07 '22 at 12:57

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 02 '21 at 00:40

First:

~ brew update

then install the latest php version (PHP 8.0.8 in the time of writing):

~ brew install php

link new version to /usr/local/Cellar/php/8.0.8:

~ brew link php

then open the shell's resource file, located in ~/ (in my case Z-shell or ZSH):

~ sudo vi .zshrc

press i to insert and somewhere in your resource file append a new path to your $PATH variable, like this:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/opt/php@8.0/bin

or in the case of ZSH, you should also be able to do it like this:

path+=('/usr/local/opt/php@8.0/bin')
export PATH

then press esc to escape from insert mode, and press :wq to save/write and quit the editor. The final step is to source the file to apply new changes permanently.

~ source .zshrc

Try new PHP version:

~ php -v

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 19 '20 at 08:39

I am not sure about the 10.13.6 High Sierra version, but this worked for me.

php -v (To see what version php has. But you have already done that)
brew unlink php55 (In my case I use php 5.5)
brew install php73 (For the php 7.3 version.)
php -v (To check of the version is the one I need.)

Hope this helps.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 26 '21 at 18:02

I solved the problem maintaining homebrew for both of the arch (arm64 and x86_64). In that case I choose Homebrew location dynamically depending on the terminal arch in my .bashrc.

if [[ $(uname -m) == "x86_64" ]]; then
  echo "x86_64 detected" 
  export PATH=/usr/local/Homebrew/bin:$PATH
else
  echo "arm64 detected"
  export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH
fi

And installed tmux in both of the terminal (native and rosetta) and after reload it works correctly. Full .zshrc can be found here.

Change mac os x default php version

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