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

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.