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.
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Within the Terminal, run
vim ~/.bash_profile -
Type
iand then paste the following at the top of the file:export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin:$PATH -
Hit
ESC, Type:wq, and hitEnter -
In Terminal, run
source ~/.bash_profile -
In Terminal, type in
which phpagain and look for the updated string. If everything was successful, It should output the new path to MAMP PHP install. -
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).
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.
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......