How do I upgrade PHP in Mac OS X?

Question

I feel this is an awfully obtuse question to ask, but strangely, this problem is poorly documented.

I would like to upgrade PHP, but there are several problems:

Answer 1

I think one simple way to do it, is:

1 - Check you where is your current PHP:

$ which php
$ /usr/local/bin/php

You see? Usually, our commands that we run is a link in /usr/local/bin so...

2 - Unlink this current link of PHP

unlink /usr/local/bin/php

If you prefere, before unlink it, check the path and then remove php files (do ls -al /usr/local/bin | grep php and then rm -rf into desired path)

3 - Install PHP 7.1

curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 7.1

4 - Create new link (using php 7.1 bin that you have installed)

ln /usr/local/php5-7.1.9-20170914-100859/bin/php /usr/local/bin/php

Like I said, its a simple way I think.

Answer 2

Saving on keystrokes, this worked on MacOS Sierra:

$ brew install homebrew/php/php71

$ /usr/local/opt/php71/bin/php -v
PHP 7.1.4 (cli) (built: Apr 14 2017 15:02:16) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies

Answer 3

You may want to check out Marc Liyanage's PHP package. It comes in a nice Mac OS X installer package that you can double-click. He keeps it pretty up to date.

http://php-osx.liip.ch/

Also, although upgrading to Snow Leopard won't help you do PHP updates in the future, it will probably give you a newer version of PHP. I'm running OS X 10.6.2 and it has PHP 5.3.0.

Answer 4

Check your current php version in terminal with the following command,

$ php -v

You see current php version in terminal, and next command run in terminal if you want to upgrade your php version with php concat with version liked as,

$ brew install homebrew/php/php71

Please restart terminal if you finished php version upgrade installed and run the command.

$ php -v

Now you see the current php version in terminal....thank

Answer 5

Use this Command:

curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 7.0

Answer 6

to upgrade php7 to latest stable version brew upgrade php7 or for php5.X to latest stable version

brew upgrade php56

use brew list to check installed version