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

(On macOS Mojave 10.14.6)

A shortcut for the mentioned 'source' command above is just the period. So you can do the following:

vi ~/.bash_profile

Add in the lines

export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/sbin:$PATH"

Hit colon W :w to write and colon Q to :q to quit VIM editor (bonus learning)

And now you "apply" it by entering into the terminal: . ~/.bash_profile

You can doublecheck the new PHP version now with php -v or which php