PHP CLI out of sync with app config?

Question

I'm setting up a PHP application that requires PHP 5.3+ so I set up a PHP5.3 app in the panel(web228). Installation involves executing a script via command line. When I ran the script, I kept getting an error with no obvious reason and happened to run php -v to get a precise version for a bug report.

Except that PHP reports itself as:

PHP 5.2.17 (cli) (built: Jun 20 2012 10:49:36)

…which isn't even an available option for me to create an application(not that I want it).

If I enter php53 -v I get:

PHP 5.3.27 (cli) (built: Jul 30 2013 07:54:02)

…which is what I expected the first time around. Is this actually correct?

Answer 1

This is correct.

We have PHP 5.2, PHP 5.3, and PHP 5.4 installed, and the shell's executable search path (the PATH environment variable) doesn't know which version of PHP you've used in installing an application from the Control Panel -- that information lives in the Shared Apache webserver's configuration file.

As a result, you'll need to use the correct php executable when interacting with your code:

PHP 5.2: /usr/local/bin/php
PHP 5.3: /usr/local/bin/php53
PHP 5.4: /usr/local/bin/php54

And, since /usr/local/bin is on the PATH by default, you can use "php", "php53", and "php54" on the command line to execute the appropriate version.

Hope that helps!

PHP CLI out of sync with app config?

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