How to downgrade php7 to php5.6 in mac high sierra

Question

Have a zend file which is perfectly go over php5.x but when it move with mac high sierra where getting error , I found that there is php 7 so want to downgrade 7 to 5.6

Answer 1

1) On the Terminal:

curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 5.6

2) Then, open the file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf with read/write permissions and change the following lines:

Change the line:

LoadModule php7_module libexec/apache2/libphp7.so

To that:

#LoadModule php7_module libexec/apache2/libphp7.so
LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
    AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
    <IfModule mod_dir.c>
        DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>

3) Pay attention because when you upgraded your macOS Sierra to macOS Sierra High, in apache2 folder, the previous file http.conf still in there but with another name. You can see and compare both for a correct configuration of your PHP 5.6. Usually, the line DocumentRoot, <Directory "/some_local/"> and LoadModule were changed by the macOS upgrade, just compare what you had and change that according to you'd like the Apache/PHP behaves.

4) Restart your apache:

On the Terminal again, type it: sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart