php version in terminal

[landpro28]

Hello!

I have installed MAMP and everything is good. It works!

But I have problem when I'm trying to run scripts from terminal. I use php5 and I need to run scripts from shell with php5 parser. In Mamp panel I choosed php5 and phpinfo() from scripts shows php5 info page. But when I call php -v from terminal I get php 4.1.1....

How to fix it?

[msodrew]

I'm pretty sure mamp doesnt install the php CLI (command line interface)... and it already obfuscates common paths.

e.g. it would be a real pain to change all the #!/bin/php 's into #!/path/where/mamp/dumps/php and vice versa at the top of your scripts.

php -v is saying 4.x.x because thats the php that is automatically installed with Mac OS X.

if you wanna be thug and use the PHP CLI, you might as well compile and setup from source. There are many instructions online how to do this.

[Vylen]

you could do that.............

or do what i did

just make a symbollic link in /usr/bin/ that points to the php5 version supplied by mamp
i.e.
[Back-up (if you want) the original php version]:
$ cp /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php4
[Make the symbollic link]:
$ ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/php /usr/bin/php

and then you're done

[jeffbax]

I tried to do that, but it says

ln: /usr/bin/php: File exists

Any advice on how to overwrite it?

[romedawg]

With the method posted above

backup default php
create symbolic link: ln -s

would this link be only available for this terminal session? Would i have to enter these commands each time I open up terminal? And how would I go about resetting the default installed php?

thanks