Install specific PHP version for mac

Question

I need a specific version of PHP for magento (7.1.3)

With home brew or curl, I can only specify one decimal (7.1, 7.2 etc).

Running

brew install [email protected]

ultimately gets me

php -v
PHP 7.1.29 (cli) (built: May 21 2019 20:05:17) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.1.29, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend 
Technologies

trying to install a specific version (like you can with node using nvm):

brew install [email protected]

gets me

Error: No available formula with the name "[email protected]"

I tried using a curl command, same issue:

https://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 7.1.3 

gets me

Did or could not download package: 7.1.3-frontenddev

TL;DR: How do i install exact version of PHP (7.1.3) on mac?

Solution 1

For the deprecated php version in the brew. Please run this.

brew tap exolnet/homebrew-deprecated

Then choose your version.

brew install [email protected]

Switch back to the first PHP version.

brew link --force --overwrite [email protected]

Here is the reference,

macOS 10.15 Catalina Apache Setup: Multiple PHP Versions

Solution 2

I didn`t find this tagged version on PHP git page, so probably is repacked version for some linux distribution. If you think that you need ~7.1.3 version because that wrotes on system requirements for magento, you can also use 7.2.0 as they wrote in https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/install-gde/system-requirements-tech.html

so you can use:

brew install [email protected]

Installing old version you miss latest bug fix and security fixes so i recommend to you at least PHP 7.2.

Comments

[Brandon]

I did try this, but it installed 7.2.19, which didn't work with magento. How do i tell it to specifically install 7.2.0, as this is the version the docs state is compatible?

[r00t-err0r]

I don`t see problems with php 7.2.19 because Magento 2.3.1 is certified and tested on PHP 7.2.11 so they support and versions above. Can you please support us with some errors or error logs, maybe you miss some extensions that magento requires.

[Kevin Labécot]

Thanks a lot, saved me. But exolnet/homebrew-deprecated does not exists anymore. Replaced with shivammathur/php (I was able to install shivammathur/php/[email protected] without any issue).