Mac OSX PHP and XAMPP path issue

Question

I have installed XAMPP on Mac OSX running Yosemite I have created the .bash_profile file like this:

export XAMPP_HOME=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles
export PATH=${XAMPP_HOME}/bin/php:${PATH}
export PATH

When I type echo $PATH in terminal, I get correct XAMPP path But when I type "which php" it shows /usr/bin/php

How can I make my XAMPP use the correct php instead of default php that came with mac?

Answer 1

To use the XAMPP PHP and other binaries found in /Applications/XAMPP/bin/ by default this is the correct entry for ~/.bash_profile

export XAMPP_HOME=/Applications/XAMPP
export PATH=${XAMPP_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
export PATH

Load the changes with this (won't be needed next time you open a shell session):

source ~/.bash_profile

Confirm:

$ which php
/Applications/XAMPP/bin/php

Answer 2

In My case I did the following

I created my bash profile.

sudo nano ~/.bash_profile

And then added the following to it

export PATH=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin:$PATH
export PATH

And then refreshed my path source ~/.bash_profile Or if that doesn't work you can close the terminal completely and start a new session.

Enter which php And you would see your new php path, in my case /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin If you know what php version you installed, you can also check by entering php -v in my case it output the following.

PHP 5.6.14 (cli) (built: Nov 19 2015 20:37:15) Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies.

Answer 3

I managed to solve the problem. On the Mac, the XAMPP bin folder and the php file had the wrong permission, hence it was not working. Secondly, I also had to profile the full path

/bin/php-5.5.15:${PATH}

Thanks