How can I get PHP working again in the command line?

Question

I\'m completely at loss here and am about to wipe my hard drive clean and start from a fresh OS install. I\'ve been trying for two days to create a new yii app in the termin

Answer 1

There is one of two things going on here, either you didn't install PHP, or PHP is installed and not currently in any of system aware paths. First I would try to find PHP and make sure it exists:

$ find / -name php -type f

You should see something like:

/path/to/your/php/bin/php

If PHP binary does exist, check your path:

$ echo $PATH

If it does not exist, recompile php.

If PHP exists on your system, make sure the path to the /bin/php file is included. You can edit your ~/.bash_profile and add the custom path like this:

PATH=$PATH:/path/to/your/php/bin/
....  
export PATH

Then save and reload the file to ensure your current session has access to new path changes:

$ source ~/.bash_profile

With any luck you can now do a php -v and see the version response.

-- Update --

Setting actual path:

$ vi ~/.bash_profile

...
# Add your custom php path
PATH=$PATH:/bitnami/mampstack-osx-x86/output/php/bin/
....  
export PATH

Save and close, then source it:

$ source ~/.bash_profile

And now you should be able to run PHP from cli:

$ php -v