IntelliJ PHP Interpreter not finding homebrew installed PHP in Mac OS X

Question

IntelliJ will not detect installed PHP even though it does exist and can be used from the command line. I have installed php via brew install php54. Below is a screenshot of my issue along with evidence that it does exist. I've tried clicking the refresh button many times, but it will not pick up the binary.

Answer 1

I just had the same problem. Through some hackery, I discovered it was due to some ansi escape sequences in my prompt. From your screenshot it looks like you might have the same or a similar issue.

Essentially, IntelliJ uses a php script to create an XML string out of some PHP configuration items, including $_SERVER. The $_SERVER superglobal contains environment variables and therefore picked up the escape character (0x1b) in the sequence. Since the escape character is invalid in XML, IntelliJ rejected the output and concluded the PHP interpreter was bad.

Once I removed the ansi sequences from my prompt, IntelliJ recognized the PHP interpreter right away.

Hope this helps.