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me24hour
me24hour

Reputation: 719

Installing PHP using Homebrew on Mac

I am trying to install PHP on my Mac machine using Homebrew. I am using the following command: brew install php

However, I am getting the following errors:

Error: No available formula with the name "php" 
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
Error: No formulae found in taps.

Upvotes: 41

Views: 121542

Answers (5)

kalicki2k
kalicki2k

Reputation: 581

I found this solution:

brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]

And switching with:

brew link --overwrite [email protected]

Upvotes: 1

gbengaoyetade
gbengaoyetade

Reputation: 864

I ran into this error in 2021 using Mac OS Big Sur. Running the below commands helped me out

  1. rm -rf $(brew --repo homebrew/core)
  2. brew tap homebrew/core
  3. brew install php

Link to source

Upvotes: 25

William Mussa
William Mussa

Reputation: 11

you can run

brew doctor

to see which branch is being used for some reasons some of the formulas are not on the origin....so kindly checkout to master on brew

git -C $(brew --repo homebrew/core) checkout master

and then try to run

brew search php

to see if its listed

Upvotes: 0

axiac
axiac

Reputation: 72216

Update

In February 2018, the php72 formula (the current version of PHP at that time) has been moved into the core Homebrew tap and renamed as php.

The homebrew/php tap has been deprecated in January 2018 and then archived on March 31, 2018. The formulas it contained are not available any more.

Since February 2018, installing PHP using Homebrew is as easy as:

$ brew install php

The older PHP versions that are still maintained can be installed using the new @ convention for versions (PHP 7.1 is [email protected]).

The original answer (not usable any more)

The PHP ecosystem lives in the homebrew/php tap. You can find there six versions of the interpreter (from 5.3 to 7.1), extensions for them and some PHP-related tools.

In order to install PHP you have to install the homebrew/php tap first (this is needed only once):

$ brew tap homebrew/php
$ brew install php70

Or you can do both operations in a single step by running:

$ brew install homebrew/php/php70

You could discover all these by searching php first:

$ brew search php

Upvotes: 65

Washington Kibichii
Washington Kibichii

Reputation: 408

After installing PHP with brew,

brew install [email protected]

or any version you need(could be: [email protected])

run this command to ensure you have PHP installed: brew list | grep php then you need to manually add an alias as follows: 

alias php='/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.3.13/bin/php'

Then, for the change to take effect you need to refresh your terminal. You can use: source ~/.bash_profile command, or close and open terminal.

Upvotes: 28

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