MacOS XAMPP PHP Installation

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Change default Mac OS X PHP to XAMPP's PHP Installation and Install Composer

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Find out what version of PHP is running

which php

This will output the path to the default PHP install which comes preinstalled by Mac OS X, by default

/usr/bin/php

Now, we just need to swap this over to the PHP that is installed with XAMPP, which is located at /Applications/XAMPP/bin

1.vim ~/.bash_profile

2. Type i and then paste the following at the top of the file:

    export PATH=/Applications/XAMPP/bin:$PATH
   

3. Hit ESC, Type :wq, and hit Enter

4. In Terminal, run source ~/.bash_profile

5. In Terminal, type in which php again and look for the updated string. If everything was successful, It should output the new path to XAMPP PHP install.

Install Composer

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Now you can fire the command to install the composer:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/bin

After the download & installation is done, You can add this alias to your .bash_profile or .profile file to get composer to work globally instead of php /usr/bin/composer.phar command.

alias composer="php /usr/bin/composer.phar"

You can verify your installation worked by typing the following command within the Terminal:

composer

Works for me, thank you!

I did all the above steps but I am still getting /usr/bin/php. I just want to change xampp PHP as default php.

^ If anyone runs into the same error where /usr/local/bin is not writable run:

sudo chown -R `whoami`:admin /usr/local/bin

First of all, thanks for the great tutorial.
Second, has anyone had the same problem and managed to solve it?
After restarting the computer, the PHP default settings seem to be cleared.
After booting, I have to enter source ~ / .bash_profile to get PHP setup from XAMP.

@Adrian-Wiszowaty It's likely your default shell is Z Shell (zsh) since macOS Catalina. You will need to edit, and source ~/.zshrc instead to persist on reboot

Can check your current shell, using;

echo $0

THX!

Ok, so for the ones whose shell is Z Shell (zsh) and are having issues with composer working globally:

• After installing composer I could not move it or make an alias through the /usr/local/bin directory.
• To do so, type php composer.phar -n config --global home in the terminal to find where it is located.
• Create the alias alias composer="php (directory you found)composer.phar".
• To save multiple lines in the ~/.zshrc type esc and then :w(write) and finally :x (exit). For the alias to work, restart the terminal.

This is what worked for me, hope it works for the ones who are having the same problem.

ok all above was useful but could not get rid of;All settings good but /usr/local/bin not writable

ok mine on high sierra went like this;
for: curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php (result:All settings good but /usr/local/bin not writable)
so decided to make the folder if none existent: [ -e /usr/local/bin ] || sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
then own the created folder: sudo chown -R whoami:admin /usr/local/bin
And again ran: curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php (There were no:/usr/local/bin not writable issues - this time)
then moved on to: mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
and: alias composer='/usr/local/bin/composer.phar'
and wala: composer --version
Composer version 2.2.12 2022-04-13 16:42:25

If your change doesn’t persist when you restart or open a new terminal window then you are most likely using zsh as @djandyr mentioned , do

1. vim ~/.zshrc

2. Type i and then paste the following at the top of the file:

3. export PATH=/Applications/XAMPP/bin:$PATH

4. Hit ESC, Type :wq, and hit Enter

5. In terminal, run source ~/.zshrc

6. In same terminal, new terminal or system restart type in which php again and look for the updated string. If everything was successful, It should output the new path to XAMPP PHP install.

Just rephrasing @djandyr with the ~/.zshrc alternative

Very useful, thanks a lot ! I installed Composer with Homebrew ("brew install composer"), it's even easier and seems to work perfectly.

it Works for me! Thank you!

Thanks worked for me aswell

can you also explain why below solution is not working
https://codewithsusan.com/notes/path-variable-mac

thanks for this, when i type :

$ which php

/Applications/XAMPP/bin/php

it will show that but when i open a duplicated terminal , it
will show mbam1@192 config % which php
php not found

thanks for this @akash-magar-dev , helped me a lot.