How to configure the PHP command line on Mac?

[pawell0]

Has anyone had that kind of experience on Mac (Catalina, Intel) when trying to manage users using terminal - warning: "Datenstrom Yellow requires PHP zip extension! See https://datenstrom.se/yellow/help/troubleshooting"? Test serwer on MAMP, ZIP extension installed and running. I don't get it ...

[PetersOtto]

Are you really sure that the php zip extension is installed on your server? I work with Linux and do not know Mamp but it should be possible to check which php modules are installed. Maybe according to this guide?

https://documentation.mamp.info/en/MAMP-Mac/FAQ/Which-PHP-modules-are-included-in-MAMP/

In my opinion, according to yellow troubleshooting, the php zip module is not installed.

[pawell0]

Should I switch it to 8.x.x?

[schulle4u]

Please create an alias for the desired php version:

alias php='/Applications/MAMP/bin/php7.4.33/bin/php'

and then you can use Yellow in the command line:

php yellow.php

Note: The alias won't be permanently saved in your .profile configuration, but for this you can check various resources on the web. 🙂

[pawell0]

Terminal after trying to create the alias:
zsh: no such file or directory: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php7.4.33/bin/php

[annaesvensson]

You are 90% there. The path is a wee bit wrong, just use the following:

alias php='/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.4.33/bin/php'

[pawell0]

Thank you, Anna, I did that before. Anyway - it works. 😉👍

[schulle4u]

Only as a side note: You might encounter another szenario with different php versions when running the internal web server using the serve extension. In my development environment I'm running more than one php version in parallel to test against incompatibilities and so on. Each version has its own alias command, e.g. php8.0, php8.1. However, the serve command still uses the system default php command to start the internal web server, so even if I run php8.1 yellow.php serve, yellow still uses the system default php version. You can easily change the corresponding line in serve.php to temporarily fix this.

[schulle4u]

...or simply update to the latest version which uses the correct php binary during runtime. Awesome! 👍

[annaesvensson]

Here's the summary for a solution with MAMP.

1. Check which PHP versions are available in MAMP:
   ls -l /Applications/MAMP/bin/php
2. Check which PHP version is currently selected in MAMP:
   preferences are accessible in the menu → MAMP → Preferences
3. Create an alias for the desired PHP version, for example:
   alias php='/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.4.33/bin/php'
4. Save the alias in your configuration file, this step is optional:
   nano ~/.profile
5. Now you should have the same PHP version in the command line.

[annaesvensson]

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