How to avoid the preinstalled PHP on MacOS Big sur? - php

Question

I've installed an updated version of PHP 7.4 using homebrew.
But still, when i run php -v on the command line, i get :
WARNING: PHP is not recommended
PHP is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.
Future versions of macOS will not include PHP.
PHP 7.3.24-(to be removed in future macOS) (cli) (built: Dec 21 2020 21:33:25) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.3.24, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
As you can see, it's still using the one that comes with Mac Os.
When i run phpinfo from a php script, i can see it's using the correct one, as i configured on Apache, as shown below.
What i need to do to make the command line use the brew installed version of PHP ?

Answer 1

After installing a package, Homebrew shows you some helpful information you have to notice that information.
Anyway, you can access that information after that, by running below command.
brew info php#7.4
If you notice there is a Caveats section like below, it contains some configurations you have to do manually.
==> Caveats
To enable PHP in Apache add the following to httpd.conf and restart Apache:
LoadModule php7_module /usr/local/opt/php#7.4/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so
<FilesMatch \.php$>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
Finally, check DirectoryIndex includes index.php
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
The php.ini and php-fpm.ini file can be found in:
/usr/local/etc/php/7.4/
php#7.4 is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local,
because this is an alternate version of another formula.
If you need to have php#7.4 first in your PATH, run:
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php#7.4/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php#7.4/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
For compilers to find php#7.4 you may need to set:
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/php#7.4/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/php#7.4/include"
To restart php#7.4 after an upgrade:
brew services restart php#7.4
Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run:
/usr/local/opt/php#7.4/sbin/php-fpm --nodaemonize
In your case, you have to add bellow lines to your shell runcom file by runing these commands in your terminal, if you using Zsh it whould be ~/.zshrc if you are using Bash, it would be ~/.bashrc.
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php#7.4/bin:$PATH"' >> path/to/runcom/file
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php#7.4/sbin:$PATH"' >> path/to/runcom/file
This would add your PHP installed by Hombrew in the path, and prefer it over macOS bundled PHP.