Update PHP to 7.4 macOS Catalina with brew

Question

I try to update my PHP version to 7.4 on macOS Catalina with brew.

I did brew install [email protected]

If I check my version php -v, I still see the old version PHP 7.3.11?

What do I have to do?

Update:

After brew doctor I get:

Warning: Homebrew's sbin was not found in your PATH but you have installed formulae that put executables in /usr/local/sbin. Consider setting the PATH for example like so: echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile

Solution 1

try:

brew update
brew upgrade php
php -v
brew services start php

or

brew services restart php

if you use apache server:

sudo apachectl restart

if you use ngnix

sudo nginx -s reload

Edit:

brew unlink [email protected]
brew link [email protected]

Solution 2

You can find my similar answer for [email protected].

• brew install [email protected]
• brew link --force --overwrite [email protected]
• brew services start [email protected]
• export PATH="/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin:$PATH"
• export PATH="/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/sbin:$PATH"

Solution 3

If anyone want to downgrade php from latest 8.1.2 to 7.4 on systems demand, try the below commands with homebrew: Installing PHP 7.4 :

brew install [email protected]
brew services restart php
brew unlink [email protected]
brew link [email protected]

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

Or

export PATH="/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/sbin:$PATH" 

Solution 4

Using terminal of MacOS. Don't use terminal in vscode.

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Comments

[meez]

thanks but after trying above, it still show PHP 7.3.11? I need to update to 7.4 because of composer's dependencies.

[Salines]

@meez. after services restart ?

[meez]

After brew unlink [email protected] I get Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected] ?

[Salines]

@meez run brew doctor

[juanitourquiza]

This solution works perfectly in MacOS BigSur.

[Jannie Theunissen]

Instead of link --force I had to do brew link --overwrite [email protected]

[chenrui]

yeah, add --overwrite to the OP (it would consider the existing php links), thanks Jannie!

[Ben Fransen]

life saver on BigSur!

[jo-chris]

96 upvotes is not enough! Thank you! Works on BigSur 11.4

[Andres SK]

I'm doing this in Catalina but export PATH="/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin:$PATH" seems to take forever.

[M Uzair Qadeer]

it's good and working well on OSX Monterey

[Nenad Kaevik]

Works like a charm on BigSur

[Justin Hammond]

Oddly enough, this did the trick even though I've linked/unlinked taps various times successfully from the VS Code terminal.

[Xab Ion]

Works perfectly on macOS Catalina. Thanks.