Homebrew – Changes from php71 to [email protected] on Installation

I'm not familiar with OpenCart but you should check you path and make sure the homebrew php is the default.

In the terminal:

$ which php
/usr/bin/php
$ php -v
PHP 5.5.14 (cli) (built: Sep  9 2014 19:09:25) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies

$ which mongod 
/usr/local/bin/mongod
$ ls -al /usr/local/bin/mongod
lrwxr-xr-x  1  ----  admin  34 Dec  8 17:25 /usr/local/bin/mongod -> ../Cellar/mongodb/2.6.5/bin/mongod

In this example I've installed mongod from homebrew. I've never installed php but it looks like it exists on my system by default. I'm guessing your system is using the standard php and not the brew one.

Try running your server like this:

/usr/local/bin/php -S localhost:8000

Don't uninstall the old php as it is /usr/bin and so supplied by Apple and so might affect the OS and Apple might reinstall it as part od an OS upgrade.

The binary install of php puts php in /usr/local/bin/php

To use it either use the full path or alter your PATH environment variable to have /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin