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Instructions on how to change preinstalled Mac OS X PHP to MAMP's PHP Installation and then install Composer Package Management
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Install Composer using MAMP's PHP.md

Change default Mac OS X PHP to MAMP's PHP Installation and Install Composer Package Management

Instructions to Change PHP Installation

First, Lets find out what version of PHP we're running (To find out if it's the default version).

To do that, Within the terminal, Fire this command:

which php

This should output the path to the default PHP install which comes preinstalled by Mac OS X, by default it has to be (Assuming you've not changed it before):

/usr/bin/php

Now, We just need to swap this over to the PHP that is installed with MAMP, which is located at /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin (MAMP 2.1.3)

To do this, We need to edit the .bash_profile and add the MAMP version of PHP to the PATH variable.

Follow these simple steps:

  1. Within the Terminal, run vim ~/.bash_profile

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

     export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/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 MAMP PHP install.

  6. In case it doesn't output the correct path, try closing the terminal window (exit fully) and open again, it should apply the changes (Restart in short).

Install Composer Package Management

Now you can fire the command to install the composer globally (So you can access it from anywhere):

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

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

composer

It'll show you the current version and a list of commands you can use if the installation was successful.

@afiaudofia
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Thanks for this. It worked for me.

@antoniocosentino
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Worked for me, thanks a lot!

@citrinefan
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super! thanks a lot!

@phpcontrols
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I had a similar issue, turns out the order in which I was setting the PATH var was the problem:
ok:
export PATH="/usr/local/php5/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH"

not ok:
export PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH"
I had a php bin in both folders...

So make sure that the folder with the correct php version is placed first in the PATH variable

That was it. Thanks!

@RaShellM
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:) thanks

@anandabayu
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Thanks, this helped so much.

@xLuisCumbi
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Thank you this helped me so much

@zhe1ka
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zhe1ka commented Nov 18, 2019

thanks

@saulojmc
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saulojmc commented Apr 1, 2020

thanks my friend

@Rizzeol
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Rizzeol commented May 24, 2020

very helpful. solved after 2 days of struggle. many thanks.

@djeffkanda
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@JonWalkerTN are you using oh-my-zsh by any chance? That's what I'm using, and instead of editing ~/.bash_profile, edit your ~/.zshrc instead, and add the exact same lines. Then run source ~/.zshrc. That solved the issue for me.

many weeks of struggle. Thanks

@great2gether
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@JonWalkerTN are you using oh-my-zsh by any chance? That's what I'm using, and instead of editing ~/.bash_profile, edit your ~/.zshrc instead, and add the exact same lines. Then run source ~/.zshrc. That solved the issue for me.

@zhiachong Thank you so much :-) It felt like a big achievement to change that link hahaha. Had a good laugh when t finally worked after trying for quite some time.

@Hayyi123SM
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terimakasih banyak / thank you so much.... finally solved during this week

@marielLatellaBarros
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marielLatellaBarros commented Nov 22, 2020 •
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THANK YOU so much! I've been struggling with this for YEARS :0)

@DouweGalaxy
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brew install composer - after installing brew.sh - is also working nowadays.

@stevenworldplay
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thx. big help

@awesome-urch
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awesome-urch commented Apr 22, 2021 •
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Thank you!

After running
echo $PATH
I get this:
/Applications/XAMPP/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
Is it okay?

Because I still get
/usr/bin/php
after running
which php

Please help me

@Mathias-Wa-Mucani
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Hello guys,
Can someone here tell me how to make my Mac stop pointing to MAMP composer and php. Have uninstalled MAMP and added the default php and composer to path but every time I do composer something..... or php something..... I get an error -bash: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/composer: No such file or directory yet when I do which composer, I get /usr/local/bin/composer. Thanks in advance......

@vietnt-uet
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You save my day!

@Ayman1970
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Ayman1970 commented Jan 15, 2022 •
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After several tries, I still get /usr/bin/php like other here, and my php ver is running on MAMP is 7.4.21 ver and also I could run 8.0.8 ver.
but when I run composer installing command, it gives me this message:
-bash: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.4.16/bin/php: No such file or directory
how to solve this problem, please.

@elvis-onobo
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After 2 days of hell, you just saved me. Thanks a lot

@kingozorg
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kingozorg commented Oct 3, 2022 via email

@psikom
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psikom commented Dec 4, 2022

It worked perfectly. Thank you

@sidshetty
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Just what I was looking for. thank you

@mubahood
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Thank you so much for this!!!

@filmfilmm
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Thank,It's workk

@kish2011
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kish2011 commented Mar 4, 2024

Thanks. it works. I think we can put 8.X.X as well

@chansnock
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thank's so much, i follow your instruction and very well result

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