change the PHP path to MAMPs PHP

Question

I\'m running PHP with MAMP on OSX 10.5.8

So if I want to run a script from console I always need to write

/applications/mamp/bin/php5.3/bin/php path/         


        

Answer 1

Use latest MAMP version of PHP

you need to edit .bash_profile

open -a TextEdit ~/.bash_profile

if you cannot find bash_profile under your home directory then create .bash_profile:

 touch ~/.bash_profile

Use latest MAMP version of PHP

PHP_VERSION=`ls /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/ | sort -n | tail -1`
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/${PHP_VERSION}/bin:$PATH

(Use source ~/.bash_profile after making your changes to make sure they take effect.)

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