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I use PHPStorm on OSX with PHPUnit and Laravel.

When I go inside my project from the PHPStorm console and type:

$ php --version

PHP 5.5.29 (cli) (built: Sep  9 2015 00:26:40) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies

$ which php

/usr/bin/php

From my terminal:

$ php --version

PHP 5.6.16 (cli) (built: Nov 27 2015 21:37:15) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2015, by Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v2.2.5, Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by Derick Rethans

$ which php

/usr/local/php5/bin/php

The above I installed. I have edited my PATH to use it.

Now I want to change the PHP version inside my PHPStorm.

I tried editing composer.json:

"require": {
    "php": ">=5.6.16",

and then running update:

$ composer update

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - This package requires php >=5.6.16 but your PHP version (5.5.29) does not satisfy that requirement.

I also tried to create a symbolic link . 

$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/php5/bin/php /usr/bin/php

It fails with:

ln: /usr/bin/php: Operation not permitted

I am not sure what to do. I would like to update Php to 5.6.16.

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  • The require line with composer states the dependency. As in, this project needs this version, but you don't use composer to install php (not yet at least). – Progrock Dec 10 '15 at 08:29
  • The link is most likely failing because you already have something at the source. What does $ readlink -e /usr/bin/php currently show? – Progrock Dec 10 '15 at 08:37

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It appears you have at least two versions of Php installed.

Try changing the interpreter path within PhpStorm.

File->settings->languages & frameworks->interpreter ...

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