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How to override the path of PHP to use the MAMP path?

After screwing up entirely my PHP configuration on MAC trying to get the SOAP module working (-bash: /usr/bin/php: No such file or directory ....) I now have to use MAMP but each time I have to type the path 

Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/php to do command line.

How to just type php instead the entire path on MAC ? I double checked and i do not have a file named .profile nor bash_profile

Thanks

PS: Here's what output echo $PATH : 

echo $PATH
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin
Solution

  • Everytime you save MAMP config (PHP section), it saves the current version of PHP on ~/.profile file and creates the alias for php, pear and pecl, to point to the current configured version. (Note: you need to check "Make this version available on the command line" option in MAMP)

    However, you need to refresh your terminal (open another session) to get this file refreshed. You can also type source ~/.profile to refesh the aliases manually.

    If you want to extract this curerent version in a PHP_VERSION variable - as commented above - for further use, you can do:

    export PHP_VERSION=`grep "alias php" ~/.profile | cut -d"/" -f6 | cut -c4-`

    And then you'll have $PHP_VERSION available with the current version of MAMP.

    Finally, if you want to run your php using the current configured version on mamp, you just need to add to your ~/.bash_profile the following:

    export PHP_VERSION=`grep "alias php" ~/.profile | cut -d"/" -f6 | cut -c4-`
export PHPRC="/Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/conf/" #point to your php.ini folder to use the same php settings
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php$PHP_VERSION/bin:$PATH

    Now, even script that relies on /usr/bin/env php will read the correct version from Mamp config.