Feb 25, 2016

Mac OS X — Use XAMPP’s PHP

XAMPP’s PHP version comes with more extensions and features than the one that comes with OS X. Especially when working with Laravel you’ll find yourself in the need of installing a PHP extension. Using XAMPP’s PHP rather than OS X’s default will keep yourself from the hassle of installing a PHP extension.

That’s how

Paste into ~/.bash_profile

export PATH=”/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin:$PATH”

. .bash_profile

Restart your terminal.

Verify it has worked

The following command should link to the PHP in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin

which php

Source and further reading

http://stackoverflow.com/a/17192458