install ext-zip for Mac

Question

I am trying to run composer update and I get the following errors:

Problem 1
    - The requested PHP extension ext-zip * is missing from your sy         


        

Answer 1

If brew link is not working for you, check your php version installed by:

ls /usr/local/opt/php*

Here, you will see a version as such:

/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/bin:$PATH

Should give you an output like:

/usr/local/opt/php@7.3:
INSTALL_RECEIPT.json        include
LICENSE                     lib
NEWS                        pecl
README.md                   sbin
bin                         share
homebrew.mxcl.php@7.3.plist

Now you just need to link that to your $PATH which can be done as:

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Note: I am using .zshrc because that is my terminal setup. If yours is bash, use accordingly.

You can check which version of php is now linked to your MacOS by running:

which php

This should give you an output of:

/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/bin/php

That's it. Now if you try composer update, it should not give you the extension issue.

Source (part of it): https://medium.com/@jjdanek/installing-php-extensions-on-mac-after-homebrew-acfffffd6be602