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dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.62.dylib error running php after installing node with brew on Mac
I installed node using homebrew (Mojave), afterwards php stoped working and if I try to run php -v I get this error:
php -v
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.62.dylib
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Where is PHP.ini in Mac OS X Lion?
I wanted to run some PHP right on my Mac, uncommented httpd.conf, activated web sharing, installed MySQL etc.
I can't seem to find my PHP files, most importantly, PHP.ini.
On my old machine it was ...
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How can I easily switch between PHP versions on Mac OSX?
I would like to test my application on PHP 5.3 up to PHP 8.2.
Where and how can I install the versions and how can I switch them by running a small script?
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How can I add additional PHP versions to MAMP
The current version of MAMP that I have only has php 5.2.17 and 5.4.4. I need 5.3.X. Is there a way to add additional versions that can be selected in the MAMP interfaces php preferences? This is for ...
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MySQL Database won't start in XAMPP Manager-osx
I downloaded XAMPP about a month ago and it was working just fine. Today I installed a voice recognition software and then restarted my computer. Ever since, MySQL won't start in my manager-osx ...
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mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/2002): No such file or directory
mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/2002): No such file or directory
PhpMyAdmin error on MacOS. I want answer I really have no idea what I need to do to resolve this.
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$PHP_AUTOCONF errors on mac os x 10.7.3 when trying to install pecl extensions
I am trying to setup my machine with pecl_http and memcache and in both cases, I get similar errors. This is on MAC OS X 10.7.3 (lion) and I also have XCODE installed on it. I also installed Zend ...
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Where does MAMP keep its php.ini?
I have recently got a mac an am not used to developing on a mac at all.
I have MAMP Pro 1.9.6.1. I did a locate on php.ini and got this:
$ locate php.ini
/Applications/MAMP/conf/php5.2/php.ini
/...
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How do I upgrade PHP in Mac OS X?
I feel this is an awfully obtuse question to ask, but strangely, this problem is poorly documented.
I would like to upgrade PHP, but there are several problems:
There is no built-in package ...
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Easiest way to activate PHP and MySQL on Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion), 10.8 (Mountain Lion)?
What is the easiest way to activate PHP and MySQL on Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion), 10.8 (Mountain Lion)?
I'd prefer to use any bundled versions before resorting to downloading from the PHP ...
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How to use the php that brew installed?
On my mac I've got php installed and working fine. I recently wanted to install mcrypt, so I did so using brew. Although it seemed to install fine, it doesn't show up in my phpinfo(). So I think that ...
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Mysql password expired. Can't connect
I just wiped my Mac and did a fresh install of El Capitan. I'm struggling to connect to Mysql now. Having gone through a web server setup process, I've created a simple PHP test file:
<?php
$...
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install ext-zip for Mac
I am trying to run composer update and I get the following errors:
Problem 1
- The requested PHP extension ext-zip * is missing from your system. Install or enable PHP's zip extension.
Problem ...
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Where is localhost folder located in Mac or Mac OS X?
I just started developing PHP projects on my mac (using PDT) and was wondering where localhost is located? How does Mac OS X serve websites, I haven't changed any settings during the installation of ...
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osx 10.10 Curl POST to HTTPS url gives SSLRead() error
I just recently upgraded to OSX 10.10 Yosemite and I since the upgrade I can't do Curl POST to a SSL url anymore.
I first used wordpress's wp_remote_request call and also tried to use curl in php.
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Update PHP to 7.4 macOS Catalina with brew
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 ...
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zsh: command not found: php
I have been using php with mamp on mac for a year even with old versions of MacOS, since I installed MacOS Monterrey if I type php on the terminal I get a message:zsh: command not found: php
Using ...
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Errors installing Composer on macOS (JIT compilation failed)
When I run composer --version in the macOS terminal, I get the following errors.
PHP Warning: preg_match(): JIT compilation failed: no more memory in
phar:///usr/local/bin/composer.phar/vendor/...
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How to override the path of PHP to use the MAMP path?
After screwing up entirely my PHP configuration on MAC trying to get the SOAP module working (-bash: /usr/bin/php: No such file or directory
....) I now have to use MAMP but each time I have to type ...
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Installing pecl and pear on OS X 10.11 El Capitan, macOS 10.12 Sierra, macOS 10.13 High Sierra (< 10.13.3)
So it looks like the new 'System Integrity Protection' lockdown of /usr (among other directories) makes pear and pecl a non-starter. Has anyone found a workaround short of disabling it?
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Start a PHP server on Mac OS X
I am figuring out how to use PHP OpenId
I have cloned the repo to the ~/www directory. There are some examples in the php-open-id/examples directory which I wanted to run.
Specifically, I wanted to ...
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How do you get php working on Mac OS X?
I have recently updated to Lion and enabled Web Sharing in the System Preferences but I am unable to get php working.
I added an info file to the web root directory and it outputs the file as text.
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Updating php version on mac
I want to update php version, currently I have 5.5.38 and I want 7.1
What I tried so far is using this command:
curl -s https://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 7.1
I tried several different ...
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Wordpress localhost ftp
I have wordpress running on my localhost on mac Lion.
Everytime I try to install or delete plugins it asks me for hostname, ftp username and ftp password.
I configured my localhost to 127.0.0.1, but ...
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configure: error: utf8_mime2text() has new signature, but U8T_CANONICAL is missing
Today I am trying to upgrade php on MacOS Mountain Lion. I followed MacTuts+ tutorial and on the step where I execute that long command:
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--mandir=/usr/share/man \
--...
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How can I get MAMP to tell me what went wrong with php code?
Whenever I have an error in my php code, MAMP just returns a 500 error. Is there anyway I can get MAMP to tell me what went wrong like parsing errors and stuff?
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php interactive shell doesn't have any output?
bash-3.2$ php -a
Interactive shell
php > $a = null || "hi"
php > echo $a
php > $b = "hi"
php > echo $b
As you can see here, nothing is being echoed.
Why is that?
I'm using Mac OS X lion. ...
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How to run a PHP script from the command line with MAMP?
I have MAMP installed. Now I am trying to run a script from the command line, but I can't seem to get it to work.
How should I set up my environment so that I can run a script from the command line ...
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How can I fix "Error: Formulae found in multiple taps"?
I want to install php54-redis.
Yu:nginx Yu$ brew install josegonzalez/php/php54-redis
==> Installing php54-redis from josegonzalez/homebrew-php
Error: Formulae found in multiple taps:
homebrew/...
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phpize reports "Cannot find config.m4"
I am trying to run the 'phpize' command on MacOSx Mountain Lion, but this is what I get:
Cannot find config.m4.
Make sure that you run '/opt/local/bin/phpize' in the top level source directory of ...
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MAMP time between seeing live changes
I'm using MAMP server and wondering why changes I make to the PHP files are not instantaneously displayed when I page refresh (in browser). Is there a way to set this up? There are no caching settings ...
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ImageMagick Brew installation with PHP Module in Mac OS X
I have installed ImageMagick using brew install imagemagick. This all worked fine and I can run any ImageMagick command from the Terminal / Command line.
Now when I try to use the ImageMagick classes ...
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Installing mcrypt extension for PHP on OSX Mountain Lion
Apologies in advance for the potential n00b questions, I am trying to install the mcrypt extension for PHP on my OSX Mountain Lion machine.
The following steps in terminal is what I have done so far ...
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Install phpredis MAC OSX
Can anyone help me install php-redis in MAC OSX .
brew install php-redis
not working.
pecl install php-redis
also not working getting -
invalid package name/package file "php-redis".
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How to change PHP version on MAMP 4.1
I downloaded MAMP 4.1 on my Mac; by default, the only PHP versions I can use are 7.0.15 and 7.1.1
How can I use PHP 5.6?
I tried the solution here Which says I should rename the versions I don't ...
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XAMPP 1.8.2-2 Apache Web Server won't start, always stops immediately
I'm running XAMPP 1.8.2-2 on my mac (OS X 10.9) and the Apache Web server won't start. It always get the status starting up.. or stopped. (never a green light.) I already tried to change the port to ...
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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 &...
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How To Install and Run wkhtmltopdf on Mac OsX 10.7.3 for use in a PHP Application
I've written a PHP/MySQL application that utilizes wkhtmltopdf to generate reports from data entered into the database. The client asked that I also install it to run as a standalone on a Mac that he ...
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CakePHP Database connection "Mysql" is missing, or could not be created
There have been several other posts about this, but none of the answers seemed to work for me.
When I navigate to the CakePHP page on my local machine, there is one error:
Cake is NOT able to ...
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Easiest way to simulate no free disk space situation?
I need to test my web app in a scenario where there’s no disk space remaining, i.e. I cannot write any more files. But I don’t want to fill my hard drive with junk just to make sure there’s really no ...
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How to enable the memcached PHP extension after installing with homebrew?
I recently installed memcached with homebrew, I'm not entirely sure how to enable it on my PHP envirionment since I added extension=memcached.so in /etc/php.ini in Lion OS X.
Even I restarted apache ...
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Can't phpize or configure an extension in OS X 10.9 Mavericks
I am trying to build the memcached extension on OS X 10.9 Mavericks for use with the built in PHP 5.4, initially I tried pecl install memcached but that threw the following.
checking for zlib ...
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Enabling PostgreSQL support in PHP on Mac OS X
I'm having a terribly difficult time getting the command "pg_connect()" to work properly on my Mac. I'm currently writing a PHP script (to be executed from console) to read a PostgreSQL database and ...
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pecl:command not found
I'm trying to run the following command in terminal on my macbook pro
cd /tmp; pecl download memcached
but im getting
pecl:command not found.
after a days googling I cant find out whats up. Does ...
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How to install gettext on MacOS X
How do I install gettext on mac?
I get this error on one of my php pages:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function bindtextdomain()
and it's because I don't have gettext installed.
I can't find ...
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How to install PHP 7.2 on macOS Big Sur using Homebrew?
I want to install PHP 7.2 on MacBook Pro M1, macOS Big Sur (11.5.2).
I already read an article (How To Install a PHP 7.2 on macOS 10.15 Catalina Using Homebrew and PECL), but it doesn't work for me.
I ...
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PHP7 installed by Homebrew doesn't work with Apache on macOS
I am trying to upgrade to php7 which I installed via homebrew.
In CLI php -v returns
PHP 7.0.10 (cli) (built: Aug 21 2016 19:14:33) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, ...
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phpize won't work on Mac OS X Lion
I try to install xdebug but I get the follow error message about 'phpize'.
How can I fix this thing?
leny:~ nick$ sudo pecl install xdebug
Password:
downloading xdebug-2.1.2.tgz ...
Starting to ...
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How to install Composer on macOS?
I was trying to install the Composer on my macOS version: high sierra--> 10.13.4
but after using the command:
sudo php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"...
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$PATH environment variable for apache2 on mac
I am trying to get apache/php to recognize the path to my git. I have been researching and looking in all corners of the web and cannot find how to do this. Basically, no matter what I try, when I run ...
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