change the PHP path to MAMPs PHP

I’m running PHP with MAMP on OSX 10.5.8

So if I want to run a script from console I always need to write

/applications/mamp/bin/php5.3/bin/php path/to/script

which is annoying. Is there a way to change the default path to php so that I can write

php path/to/script

and still uses MAMPs PHP version?

Answer

Create a file called .bash_profile on your home directory (if you don’t have this file already), and add this to the file:

export PATH=/Applications/mamp/bin/php5.3/bin:$PATH

Then quit and relaunch Terminal.app