In command prompt type below
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\path\to\php
Where C:\path\to\php is the folder where your php.exe file is located. After this run
C:\>php -v
than you will see something like
PHP 7.3.6 (cli) (built: May 29 2019 12:11:00)
UPDATE:
If you find that when you restart your computer, this solution will not work anymore:
Set the Path like as following:
Step 1 - Click on the
Windowsicon
Step 2 - Click on the
Settingsicon
Step 3 - Click on
System
Step 4 - Click on
About
Step 5 - Click on
System info
Step 6 - Click on
Advanced system settings
Step 7 - Click on
Environment variables...
Step 8 - Select
Pathrow and then clickEdit
Step 9 - Click
Newand then clickBrowse, then in the next panel which will open you need to select the folder you want in thePath. For the initial premise of this guide i will add the folderC:\Users\NewFolderInPathNote: Replace your PHP installed path(e.g:
C:\Program Files\php) with the above path .
Step 10 - Click
OKand click everyOKbutton you will encounter to close every previous windows.
In command prompt type below
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\path\to\php
Where C:\path\to\php is the folder where your php.exe file is located. After this run
C:\>php -v
than you will see something like
PHP 7.3.6 (cli) (built: May 29 2019 12:11:00)
UPDATE:
If you find that when you restart your computer, this solution will not work anymore:
Set the Path like as following:
Step 1 - Click on the
Windowsicon
Step 2 - Click on the
Settingsicon
Step 3 - Click on
System
Step 4 - Click on
About
Step 5 - Click on
System info
Step 6 - Click on
Advanced system settings
Step 7 - Click on
Environment variables...
Step 8 - Select
Pathrow and then clickEdit
Step 9 - Click
Newand then clickBrowse, then in the next panel which will open you need to select the folder you want in thePath. For the initial premise of this guide i will add the folderC:\Users\NewFolderInPathNote: Replace your PHP installed path(e.g:
C:\Program Files\php) with the above path .
Step 10 - Click
OKand click everyOKbutton you will encounter to close every previous windows.
You just need to find out where is your PHP folder.
- If you are using XAMPP or WAMP then you will see a php folder.
- You just need to go into the php folder using your cmd using command
cd \xampp\php (FOR XAMPP)
cd \wamp\php (FOR WAMP)
- And then just type in this command
php -v
- Then you will see something like
PHP 5.6.11 (cli) (built: Jul 9 2015 20:55:40) Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
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hi, I'm new to PHP.
I want to change display_errors to On for debugging, but see many PHP versions installed.
I thought going to http://localhost/first/index.php?language=English&page=phpinfo would give me the version , but it just renders the regular index page.
Ty.
I use the following command to view installed PHP versions in Ubuntu:
sudo update-alternatives --list php
Second way go to php directory where all PHP version configuration file stored:
cd /etc/php
dir
Output:
> 5.6 7.0 7.1
Since you have a Linux environment, you can run this on your console:
locate bin/php
And then for anything that looks like a PHP binary, get the version. The output for me for the above is:
/home/xx/Development/Personal/Project1/webapp/bin/phpunit
/home/xx/Development/Personal/Project1/webapp-backup/vendor/bin/phpunit
/home/xx/Development/Personal/Project2/app/vendor/bin/phpunit
/home/xx/php-threaded/bin/php
/home/xx/php-threaded/bin/php-cgi
/home/xx/php-threaded/bin/php-config
/home/xx/php-threaded/bin/phpize
/usr/bin/php
/usr/bin/php5
/usr/local/bin/php-cgi
/usr/local/bin/php-config
/usr/local/bin/php53
/usr/local/bin/phpize
/usr/sbin/php5dismod
/usr/sbin/php5enmod
/usr/sbin/php5query
Out of those, there are a few that look like PHP binaries. So let's get the version for each:
/home/xx/php-threaded/bin/php -v
/usr/bin/php -v
/usr/bin/php5 -v
/usr/local/bin/php53 -v
That will give you the versions of PHP you have installed.
I wouldn't bother deleting an old version, it might remove files that will stop things working. You can just configure the console version, or the Apache version, to use the version you want.
In answer to your supplementary question: it seems that you've followed the instructions here to add an unofficial repo to your version of Ubuntu, since the standard repo does not support 5.5.
We discovered together that the way to get it working was first to upgrade Apache from 2.2 to 2.4:
sudo apt-get upgrade apache2
It should be noted that this can cause some vhost repair to be required, as some Apache directives changed in this version. Once you have done that, you can get the new version of mod_php:
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5