MAMP phpMyAdmin is not active?

Question

I've just installed the free version of MAMP and I can't access phpMyAdmin tool.

phpMyAdmin is not clickable and it says needs PHP 5.5.x to 7.0.x as it can be seen from the screenshot;

However, when I checked the installed PHP version;

ricsters-MacBook-Pro:~ ricster$ php -v
PHP 7.1.1 (cli) (built: Jan 23 2017 15:09:57) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies

So I have the PHP 7.1.1 installed but for some reason, MAMP doesn't recognize it. How can I solve this issue?

Answer 1

You can choose another PHP version from Preferences -> PHP.

There is PHP 7.0.15 shipped with MAMP. Enable it and restart MAMP.

MAMP shows only two versions of PHP, so if you don't see it on the list then go to the folder

Applications/MAMP/bin/php

and rename folders with PHP versions you are not using.