setting "$PATH" variables for PHP in AMPPS (OSX) - php

Question

I have a question about setting "$PATH" variables for PHP scripts in AMPPS
(On OSX 10.10 Yosemite).
The PHP in AMPPS seems to run as my user "danny", however the $PATH it sees
is different. Here's what I see from my terminal:
Dannys-MacBook-Air:AMPPS danny$ echo $PATH;
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
And here is what I get within a PHP script by printing out $_ENV:
["PATH"]=> string(29) "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" ["USER"]=> string(5)
"danny"
I tried doing "putenv()", tried doing "shell_exec" with a different $PATH,
I tried doing SetEnv in .htaccess and in the Apache config file. I tried
editing the systemwide /etc/.bashrc , and my users ~/.bash_profile. Neither
helped so far.
All I need is to have /usr/local/bin as part of my $PATH.

Answer 1

I know this is an older post, but this helped me, (doing this with Ampps, not MAMP, but it should work the same)
From here
Create a variable with the path to your PHP binary (in terminal)
they recommend
export AMPPS_PHP=/Applications/AMPPS/php/bin
mine was export AMPPS_PHP=/Applications/AMPPS/php-7.1/bin
then just
export PATH="$AMPPS_PHP:$PATH"
Test it out with which php or php -v

Answer 2

I don't know if it is even possible, but I wonder why do you need this, i.e. do you need really to change your PATH env variable? Or it would be enough to you using this function and setting the variabile only for the created process?

Answer 3

You can setup your Apache Server to run with your credential and resolve definitively the $PATH problem.
However, you can also do this and it should works :
<?php
putenv('PATH', getenv('PATH') . ';/usr/local/bin');
var_dump(getenv('PATH'));
?>
The modification of $PATH will still available only the duration of your PHP execution, there are other ways to set environment variable permanently
Hope that helps :)

Answer 4

This may not be well received, but I have been in your spot and have come close to throwing my machine across the room trying to properly set the PHP path for MAMP in OSX.
I started using Vagrant and developing from a VM, and found it to be way easier, especially if you want to change languages for other projects. Trust me, it will save you time in the long run.
Download VirtualBox
Download Vagrant
Select what type of box you want via PuPHPet
cd into the puphpet directory and run vagrant up (may take a while!)
The inital setup will take a little bit of time, but be very fast moving forward and makes it really easy to share environments with others.
Cheers
EDIT: I think its a very real solution for the future, but for now what worked for me was adding:
export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH to my .bash_profile
on OSX Yosemite. I believe the folder structure changed in Yosemite.