PHP usage issues with many Homebrew errors when reinstalling after macOS Monterey update
I made the seemingly wrong decision to update to macOS Monterey 12.3.1 and am having trouble trying to get PHP to run on it again. As far as I know, Apple has decided to deprecate PHP - at least from their machines, and they removed every php version and setting I had for all my Laravel and Wordpress projects!
I tried to reinstall PHP using homebrew but I got a lot of errors and some packages couldn't be downloaded due to authorization denied?
I then tried uninstalling and reinstalling Homebrew and did the following:
Install Homebrew
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
Add the following content to zshrc
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
Test the brew version to see if it works properly
brew --version
Run brew doctor to make sure everything is configured correctly
brew doctor
I also found out that there might be libraries missing and I should reinstall open ssl, so I did that too:
brew install openssl
Then for PHP I run:
brew tap shivammathur/php
Then
brew install shivammathur/php/php@7.4 brew install shivammathur/php/php@8.0
I even restarted the php service just in case
brew services restart shivammathur/php/php@7.4 brew services restart shivammathur/php/php@8.0
Then I ran away
php -v
I get the following error:
zsh: command not found: php
and where php says php not found
What the hell!
Then I tried to unlink php and force link to 7.4:
brew unlink php && brew link --overwrite --force php@7.4
I get the following error:
Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/php
I've tried to dig into this keg issue but I haven't been able to figure it out, do you have any suggestions for next steps
