I made the seemingly wrong decision to update to macOS Monterey 12.3.1 and am having trouble trying to get PHP to run on it again. As far as I know, Apple has decided to deprecate PHP - at least from their machines, and they removed every php version and setting I had for all my Laravel and Wordpress projects!

I tried to reinstall PHP using homebrew but I got a lot of errors and some packages couldn't be downloaded due to authorization denied?

I then tried uninstalling and reinstalling Homebrew and did the following:

Install Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

Add the following content to zshrc

eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

Test the brew version to see if it works properly

brew --version

Run brew doctor to make sure everything is configured correctly

brew doctor

I also found out that there might be libraries missing and I should reinstall open ssl, so I did that too:

brew install openssl

Then for PHP I run:

brew tap shivammathur/php

Then

brew install shivammathur/php/php@7.4
brew install shivammathur/php/php@8.0

I even restarted the php service just in case

brew services restart shivammathur/php/php@7.4 
brew services restart shivammathur/php/php@8.0

Then I ran away

php -v

I get the following error:

zsh: command not found: php

and where php says php not found

What the hell!

Then I tried to unlink php and force link to 7.4:

brew unlink php && brew link --overwrite --force php@7.4

I get the following error:

Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/php

I've tried to dig into this keg issue but I haven't been able to figure it out, do you have any suggestions for next steps