After updating to Yosemite OS I had some problems to run php. So I had to uninstall them.
brew remove php53
brew remove php54
brew remove php55
Yosemite will install its PHP by default, so if you do now php -v and php-fpm -v you will get php 5.5 as that is the default distribution from Yosemite
PHP 5.5.20 (cli) (built: Feb 25 2015 23:30:53)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
Remove the already installed Php from Yosemite distribution:
sudo su
cd /usr/bin
mkdir default_execs
mv php* default_execs/
cd /usr/sbin
mv php-fpm old_php-fpm
When I tried to install brew from josegonzalez/homebrew-php tap I got:
brew install php54 --with-debug --with-fpm --homebrew-apxs --with-gmp --with-homebrew-libxslt --with-homebrew-openssl --with-libmysql5
==> Installing php54 from josegonzalez/homebrew-php
==> Downloading https://www.php.net/get/php-5.4.40.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/php54-5.4.40
Warning: Backing up all known pear.conf and .pearrc files
Warning: If you have a pre-existing pear install outside
of homebrew-php, or you are using a non-standard
pear.conf location, installation may fail.
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/php54/5.4.40 --localstatedir=/usr/local/var --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/php/5.4 --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/etc/php/5.4 --with-config-
3. Apache was not built using --enable-so (the apxs usage page is displayed)
The output of /private/tmp/php5420150513-3301-p38m76/php-5.4.40/["sbin", "bin"] follows:
./configure: line 8421: /private/tmp/php5420150513-3301-p38m76/php-5.4.40/["sbin",: No such file or directory
configure: error: Aborting
READ THIS: https://git.io/brew-troubleshooting
If reporting this issue please do so at (not Homebrew/homebrew):
https://github.com/josegonzalez/homebrew-php/issues
so I google it but I got nothing with this error so researching a bit more I found that the problem was an outdated Brew with some dependencies that were not working anymore so I had to run:
brew doctor # And listen to the doctor
brew update
brew prune
brew install -v homebrew/php/php56
php -v
PHP 5.6.8 (cli) (built: May 11 2015 12:22:52)
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
And now I’m back with full featured php56 in my laptop.