change the PHP path to MAMPs PHP

Question

I'm running PHP with MAMP on OSX 10.5.8

So if I want to run a script from console I always need to write

/applications/mamp/bin/php5.3/bin/php path/to/script

which is annoying. Is there a way to change the default path to php so that I can write

php path/to/script

and still uses MAMPs PHP version?

Answer 1

Create a file called .bash_profile on your home directory (if you don't have this file already), and add this to the file:

export PATH=/Applications/mamp/bin/php5.3/bin:$PATH

Then quit and relaunch Terminal.app

Answer 2

Use latest MAMP version of PHP

you need to edit .bash_profile

open -a TextEdit ~/.bash_profile

if you cannot find bash_profile under your home directory then create .bash_profile:

 touch ~/.bash_profile

Use latest MAMP version of PHP

PHP_VERSION=`ls /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/ | sort -n | tail -1`
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/${PHP_VERSION}/bin:$PATH

(Run source ~/.bash_profile after making your changes to make sure they take effect.)

source: How to override the path of PHP to use the MAMP path?

Answer 3

The easiest way would be to rewrite the alias. Just copy/paste the cmd bellow into terminal for temporary use or write it into .bash_profile to make it permanent.

For MAMP

$ alias php=/applications/mamp/bin/php5.3/bin/php

For XAMPP

$ alias php=/Applications/XAMPP/bin/php

For AMPPS

$ alias php=/Applications/AMPPS/php-5.6/bin/php

Run php via our new alias

$ php -v

Answer 4

vi ~/.bash_profile

//add
export PATH=/path/to/php/bin:$PATH

source ~/.bash_profile