How to complete remove all links to default PHP version

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Running macOS Sierra.

How can I complete remove all links to the default installed PHP version? I have installed PHP 7 through homebrew but when I run scripts that call external CLI applications programatically they still seem to end up using PHP 5.6.25 which is the default installed PHP version.

What can I do to break all ties to this PHP version?

My php -v and phpinfo() already show the proper PHP7 version that I installed. Somehow some scripts still try to look for the default version.

I already read you cannot simply delete it.

If you need more info please let me know.

Best Answer

Try this:

sudo mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php5
sudo ln -s `which php` /usr/bin/php

The first command backs up the old PHP binary. It can still be used by invoking php5 in a command line. The second command symlinks the new PHP 7 binary to the location of the old PHP binary. Therefore, scripts that use the old location will start using the new PHP version.

Step 1

Open the default Terminal app, then click on Preferences

You will see a path for "Shells open with"

Change the path to

/bin/bash

Close everything out and restart Terminal. Now it should be working, if not, sorry you might have an additional problem that I did not have. But proceed if you are good at this point.

Step 2

proceed to now update bash

brew install bash

Because I ran install I also had to unlink

brew unlink bash

then I ran the command again to install

brew install bash

At this point i started iTerm up again with no problem

MacOS – How to remove preinstalled Apache and PHP from Mac OS Sierra

Removing system macOS binaries is not a good idea, they will be reinstalled during a next system upgrade and they could be needed by some system scripts.

To enable the homebrew php from the command line, read the output of brew info php70:

If you wish to swap the PHP you use on the command line, you should add the following to ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile or your shell's equivalent configuration file: export PATH="$(brew --prefix homebrew/php/php70)/bin:$PATH"

If you have installed php 7.2, check the output of brew info php72.

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