05/06/2018 - MAC, PHP
If you wish to install PHP 7.2 and disable Apache you can follow the steps below.
As shown below Mac OS Sierra comes with PHP 5.6 below by default.
$ php -v
PHP 5.6.30 (cli) (built: Feb 7 2017 16:18:37)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
$ which -a php
/usr/bin/php
Upgrade PHP to version 7.2.
$ curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 7.2
Detected macOS Sierra 10.12. All ok.
...
Installing package 7.2-10.10-frontenddev into root /
...
Restarting Apache
Syntax OK
Finished.
Update environment variable.
$ export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH
--- Verify.
$ php -v
PHP 7.2.2 (cli) (built: Feb 1 2018 13:23:34) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.2.2, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies
with Xdebug v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2018, by Derick Rethans
$ which -a php
/usr/local/php5/bin/php
/usr/bin/php
Make change permanent.
$ echo "export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile
Stop it.
$ sudo apachectl stop
Turn it off.
$ sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist
Note: You might need to restart the device.