Library not loaded error after brew install php56

Question

I\'m upgrading from php5.5 to php5.6 on OSX Mavericks using homebrew. I run

brew install php56

Everything runs and completes fine but when

Answer 1

For this to be fixed for me (Mavericks 10.9.5) necessitated the entire routine described in this GitHub issue, namely:

brew uninstall --force php56

brew update

brew tap --repair

find $(brew --cache) -mindepth 1 -print -delete

brew install -v php56

(and in my case I needed brew install php56-mcrypt as well, as that was missing.)

I'd had PHP 5.4 and 5.6 installed before, with 5.4 being the active ("linked") one – I wanted to switch. I'd installed the php-switcher package, which is a very neat way of letting you do this, but it wasn't working prior to the above procedure.