update php mamp mac

1That's because it's referring to the pre-installed PHP of your OSX. You need to change that to point to your MAMP PHP. To do so you need to edit the .bash_profile with a text editor and add the MAMP version of PHP to the PATH variable.
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3Follow these steps (source):
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5Within the Terminal, run
6vim ~/.bash_profile
7Type i and then paste the following at the top of the file:
8export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.1.1/bin:$PATH
9Hit ESC, Type :wq, and hit Enter
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11In Terminal, run:
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13 source ~/.bash_profile
14In Terminal, type in which php again and look for the updated string. If everything was successful, It should output the new path to MAMP PHP install.
15In case it doesn't output the correct path, try closing the terminal window (exit fully) and open again, it should apply the changes.