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I'm on a Mac, and it has PHP 5.3.4 built in.

I downloaded the sources of PHP 5.3.6 and installed it via

./configure; sudo make; sudo make install

It is now installed in /usr/local/bin/php:

/usr/local/bin/php  -v
PHP 5.3.6 (cli) (built: May  9 2011 12:04:28) 

However when I run the php command, I still get old php version:

php -v
PHP 5.3.4 (cli) (built: Dec 15 2010 12:15:07) 

The location is also different:

which php
/usr/bin/php

I can run the scripts with new PHP by specifying the full path, but how can I make it like

php5.3.6 hello_world.php

?

Thank you

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  • Have you edited your apache conf?
    – JohnP
    May 9, 2011 at 8:17
  • There is no need for sudo when using make. Only make install might need rootpermissions to write to protected directories.
    – Lekensteyn
    May 9, 2011 at 9:21

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You will probably want to use the alias command.

Assuming you're using bash create a file called ~/.bash_aliases

and add the following to it:

alias php5.3.6="/usr/local/bin/php"
alias php5.3.4="/usr/bin/php"

I'd recommend only having one version of PHP installed at a time and unless you really need to compile from source would suggest you use some kind of packaged binary install (like an RPM or .deb package)

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  • Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for... Didn't know about aliasing. I love *nix more and more with every day
    – Alex
    May 9, 2011 at 8:21
  • if the .bash_aliases file isn't parsed (I don't have a mac to verify) then try adding it to ~/.bashrc
    – James C
    May 9, 2011 at 8:24
  • In fact I just ran the command alias php5.3.6="/usr/local/bin/php" in terminal, and it worked! I didn't even have to edit any files.
    – Alex
    May 9, 2011 at 8:40
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    @Alex: The issue is that alias doesn't persist across reboots (or indeed, even across sessions!). If you want it to work consistently, you'll need to add it to a file somewhere.
    – BMDan
    May 9, 2011 at 10:29
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You can create a symlink in /usr/bin. Dont know mac very well. Under linux its like

ln -s /usr/local/bin/php /usr/bin/php5.3.6

Should be similar under the apple.

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