How to indicate which php version to use in a background process

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I'm running MAMP with PHP 5.5.18 (cli) (built: Oct 20 2014 16:18:57) on Mac OS X 10.10.1.

All is well, except when I issue a background php process from within my PHP script. The process runs fine although my logs tell me a specific extension (mcrypt) is not installed when in fact I know it is. Well, I know it's installed in my 5.5.18 version. So this is leading me to believe the background process might be accessing a different version of php.

Two questions: 1) How can I tell which version of PHP the background process is accessing? 2) Is there a way to force the background process to use a specific version of PHP?

You probably launch the main script through Apache and the background one through command line. Same version, just different settings. — Álvaro González, Dec 01 '14 at 15:11
What does `php -v` give? And `php -i | grep "PHP Version"` give? — ʰᵈˑ, Dec 01 '14 at 15:12
PHP-FPM and PHP-CLI do not share the same .ini files. That means that (probably) your CLI php.ini doesn't have the mcrypt extension loaded. `php --ini` will tell you which .ini file the CLI loads. Check whether you loaded mcrypt there. — N.B., Dec 01 '14 at 15:14
php --ini returns /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.18/conf/php.ini — Mark Salvatore, Dec 01 '14 at 15:20
Is there a way to force the background process to use a specific version of PHP? — Mark Salvatore, Dec 01 '14 at 16:31

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