Specifying a PHP Executable Path

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I have a Macintosh with multiple versions of PHP. There is the default Mac version in /usr/bin/php as well as a number of alternative versions in various Web Server packages such as XAMPP and MAMP (which in turn has a large number of versions).

I teach PHP and I would like to try some code in alternative versions. I would also like to help students in setting up Atom Script in their development environment.

I have found that by setting an absolute path for command in php.coffee, it does the job. That’s not too hard.

The question is:

• is this the only way to specify the preferred path?
• is there the possibility of a gui for this?