Mac upgraded PHP to 5.6, but CLI php -v get 5.3.28?

Question

I have installed MAMP (comes with PHP 5.5) on my machine. And localhost pointed to /Applications/MAMP/htdocs. The problem happened when I was trying to use composer in termi

Answer 1

If you have upgraded using curl, copy & paste the following line of code and press enter.

$ export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH

Now, type $ php -v

If done correctly, it should show the following

PHP 5.6.23 (cli) (built: Jun 26 2016 13:17:47) Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies with Xdebug v2.2.5, Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by Derick Rethans