I am trying to use composer to install a google client library, but cannot install composer or use php on the command line.
I am using php 8.0.8 with MAMP and it is working fine, so I know it is installed.
If I type php in the terminal, I receive the command not found message. Thinking it could be an environment variable, I have tried navigating to the php folder /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php8.0.8/lib/php and tried the php command again, but still get the same error
I am using a Mac running Monterey
Change default Mac OS X PHP to MAMP's PHP Installation and Install Composer Package Management
Instructions to Change PHP Installation
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.
Follow these simple steps:
Within the Terminal, run vim ~/.bash_profile
Type i and 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 hit Enter
In Terminal, run source ~/.bash_profile
In Terminal, type in which php again 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).
Install Composer Package Management
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.
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I am using a shared host which comes with an old version of composer. Unfortunately, it's an old version its not able to install something properly. My shared host provider said I can simply install a new version to my shared root directory.
So I did that by adding a php.ini file and then running the following command
php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php -c php.ini
That seemed to work and when I run the command to check the version it only shows me the new version when I run php composer.phar -V. But when I run composer -V, it shows me the old version.
How can I override the main composer for my shared directory? And by the way, I did this in my root directory as I have multiple domains so was hoping I could get this to work in all domains.
I managed to find a solution. I just needed to create an alias and it seems to be working now
echo alias composer="composer.phar" >> .bashrc
I want to use another php version on my machine than the one already installed using WAMP (2 PHP version installed).
The composer installed uses PHP 5.6
A new project requires PHP7.0.
Whenever I choose PHP 7 from the control panel of WAMP and then run php -v it still printing PHP5.6 (CLI)... instead of PHP7.
How can I use PHP7 without reinstalling the composer again?
You can change php version of composer without uninstalling it, follow these steps :
Search for system environment variables in cortana.
Click on the button "Environment variables".
Under "System variables" select path and click on edit, you will see one entry like this "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.6.13".
Just change this to the folder name of the php located at your wamp/bin/php7.1.9, here php7.1.9 is folder name.
Replace php5.6.13 with bin7.1.9, it will look like these "C:\wamp\bin\php\php7.1.9", just click ok on all the boxes.
You are done.
To verify, first close all the cmd windows, than open cmd and type php -v, press enter and you should see php7.1.9.
If you don't see change in php version than just restart your pc and run php -v again in cmd , it will work.
I'm assuming Windows if you're using WAMP. Composer likely is just using the PHP set in your path: How to access PHP with the Command Line on Windows?
You should be able to change the path to PHP using the same instructions.
Otherwise, composer is just a PHAR file, you can download the PHAR and execute it using any PHP:
C:\full\path\to\php.exe C:\full\path\to\composer.phar install
If anyone is still having trouble, remember you can run composer with any php version that you have installed e.g. $ php7.3 -f /usr/local/bin/composer update
Use which composer command to help locate the composer executable.
I found a very easy way to switch php versions:
Search for system environment variable
Click on "Environment variables"
Under "System variables" select path and click on edit
Move the PHP version folder you want to use before the other one.
So for example: php 7.0 will now be used:
Close all windows by clicking "OK"
Close all the cmd windows, than open cmd and type php -v
You will see the correct php version loaded now:
Another possibility to make composer think you're using the correct version of PHP is to add to the config section of a composer.json file a platform option, like this:
"config": {
"platform": {
"php": "<ver>"
}
},
Where <ver> is the PHP version of your choice.
Snippet from the docs:
Lets you fake platform packages (PHP and extensions) so that you can emulate a production env or define your target platform in the config. Example: {"php": "7.0.3", "ext-something": "4.0.3"}.
This is what happens in my case. I hope this may help to someone have same situation. I'm using macOS Monterey with MAMP.
I linked the php 7.4 using ~/.profile file. So the terminal it says I'm using php 7.4. However, still my composer giving an error saying i'm using php 7.3.
So I check the php path using
which php
This gives me the /usr/local/bin/php as my php cli location. So I remove the file and made a symlink to my php7.4 and now working perfectly.
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/php
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.4.21/bin/php /usr/local/bin/php
I found out that composer runs with the php-version /usr/bin/env finds first in $PATH, which is 7.1.33 in my case on MacOs.
So shifting mamp's php to the beginning helped me here.
PHPVER=$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "print phpVersion" ~/Library/Preferences/de.appsolute.mamppro.plist)
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php${PHPVER}/bin:$PATH
Old question I know, but just to add some additional information:
WAMP is used only on Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.
Changing the version of PHP used through the left-click -> PHP -> Version menu changes the version used by Apache to server your site.
Changing the version of PHP used through the right-click -> Tools -> Change PHP CLI Version menu changes the version used by WAMP's PHP CLI.
Note: It is important to understand that the "PHP CLI Version" is used by WAMP's own internal PHP scripts. This "PHP CLI Version" has nothing to do with the version you wish to use for your scripts, Composer or anything else.
For your scripts to work with the version you require, you need to add it's path to the Users Environmental Path. You could add it to the Systems environmental Path but the Users Path is the recommended option.
From WAMP v3.1.2, it would display an error when it detect reference to a PHP path in the System or User Environmental Path. This was to stop confusion such as you were experiencing. Since v3.1.7 the display of this error can now be optionally displayed through a selection in the WampSettings menu.
As indicated in previous answers, adding an installed PHP path (such as "C:\wamp64\bin\php\php7.2.30") to the Users Environmental Path is the correct approach. PS: As the value of the Users Environmental Path is a string, all paths added must be separated with a semi-colon (;)
After experiencing the exact same problem (IE: Choosing which version of PHP I wanted Composer to use), I created a script which could easily and rapidly switch between PHP CLI Versions depending on what project I was working on.
The Windows batch script "WampServer-PHP-CLI-Version-Changer" can be found at https://github.com/custom-dev-tools/WampServer-PHP-CLI-Version-Changer
I hope this helps others.
Good luck.
After a long search on the internet and finding many unrelated answers / ones that did not work for me, Here is what worked for me.
Those who are in shared hosting know that bin directory is write-protected and running sudo commands or any system-wide command is not allowed.
There's two ways of solving this:
Run the command directly on your project folder selecting the appropriate PHP version you need.
ea-php80 /opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer update
To get available PHP on your server type ea-php and hit TAB to see a list.
make an alias to composer
Run this command to edit/make this file nano ~/.bashrc
Inside that file, put alias composer="ea-php80 /opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer"
This gives you the flexibility to run composer commands as usual without those long trailing strings
If you are using Windows, all you have to do is change the path to php.exe in the composer.bat file located in: "C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin".
In my case I include paths to all php versions, whenever I need to run a project on a specific php version, I just move the required path to the top (using these buttons in the right) and then close all the terminals and restart my wampp server.
The path with listing in the will be selected as your php version by windows
This is the simplest solution I think.
If you still facing the problem after changing Environment variables in windows, try to delete directory or just rename directory of your old php.
I've done it and it's work.
I will assume that you need this because a requirement to have multiple php versions installed to handle multiple projects.
If this is the case a prefer to run directly the php desired bin pointing to the executable script of composer, for example, in my case I have php 8.1 and 7.4, my main php version configured for CLI is 8.1, but I want to run composer with 7.4 in some projects, so I run this command:
php7.4 -f /usr/local/bin/composer install
Where php7.4 is the bin installed and my global composer script is in /usr/local/bin/composer
From there, you can make an alias like this to facilitate things: alias composer7.4='php7.4 -f /usr/local/bin/composer ' so next time you need to run composer with php#7.4 you only need to run: composer7.4 install
Came here by the title, but the question specifies WAMP; which this may not easily apply to. So, in my case - using a Mac.. so more like a MAMP - if you have brew and the below versions installed, this could help - and composer picks it up.
brew link --overwrite --force php#8.1
php -v
#PHP 8.1...
brew link --overwrite --force php#7.4
php -v
#PHP 7.4...
I am using OSX running on El Capitan and setting up PhpStorm and the Laravel environment has been a nightmare. I created a project setting up Composer and created it with laravel/laravel from the options menu.
As you can see in the screen shot, the PHP version says 5.6.31.. but if I type php -v in the command line. It gives me php 5.5 (as shown in the bottom left)
If I type php -v in the terminal I also get php 5.6.
which php returns me /usr/local/bin/php
I originally had a problem where PHP would not upgrade to 5.6.. but I managed to solve this with homebrew.
And if I use terminal and cd into the folder to run artisan key:generate and config:clear .. I am able to get the Laravel homepage to load (but typing this from the PhpStorm command line does not work).
My understanding is that the command line is pointing to the directory of PHP that came with my Mac? So how do I point it to the upgraded version? Or is the problem something else?
I think this is a strange problem and already a few people I have asked have not been able to solve it (also setting this up is all very new to me).
what I did is to set an alias on my ~/.bashrc to point php command to point to /Applications/XAMPP/bin/php
e.g. alias php="/Applications/XAMPP/bin/php"
in your case, you can use your XAMPP's full path to your php binary file as you might have different installation paths.
You should be able to add:
export PATH=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/php5.6.31:$PATH
to your ~/.bash_profile (assuming you're running a bash shell). Then just run source ~/.bash_profile and it should all work.
I'm using linux and installed xampp that already provided php in its package. Then, I add "export PATH=/opt/lampp/bin:$PATH" to my "~/.bashrc" so that I can use every commands that is provided in xampp directly from my terminal (without needed to pointing to "/opt/lampp/bin"). Everything works fine.
My problem is I'm using netbeans and when I tried to execute my program, it said "/usr/bin/env: php: No such file" I know it happened because there's no php in my "/usr/bin" since I have it via xampp, but I do have it in my "/opt/lampp/bin". How to configure PHP in netbeans so that it's pointing to "/opt/lampp/bin", instead of "/usr/bin"?
I've googled it and they said that I need to install php-cli, which I think is not a good choice since it makes me have two php in my system. IS there any way for me to use netbeans and php from xampp without needed to install php-cli?
I've also tried to Tools->Options->PHP-General and provide PHP interpreter poiting to "/opt/lampp/bin/php" but it didn't work.
Have you e.g. restarted OS after editing .bashrc file? Or run in command line
. ~/.bashrc
to apply changes in bashrc and then start NetBeans and give it another try. Another option could be to use symbolic link
sudo ln -s /opt/lampp/bin/php /usr/bin/php
If you run "which php" does it point to the lampp directory?