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

In response to @MikeTheCoder, the posted export path syntax didn't work for me, but the slightly modified one following did:

export PATH=/usr/local/php5-5.6.27-20161101-100213/bin/:$PATH

I'm using El Capitan 10.11.6 which defaults to an earlier PHP version.