Answers.Body: <p>The reason seems to be that either the <em>PHP</em> version of the <em>MacOS Catalina</em> update or a version installed via <em>brew</em> do not come bundled with the ext-zip extension.</p>
  
  <p>You can verify that by calling <code>php -m</code> in the Terminal. You will get a list of all modules and it will not contain the word <code>zip</code></p>
  
  <p>Even if it contains the word <code>zip</code> it does not necessarily mean that <em>composer</em> has it available. This is caused by the way <em>ZSH</em> (shell on MacOS) handles the PATH variable.</p>
  
  <p>In my case I used an <em>alias</em> pointing to the MAMP version of PHP (which has zip enabled), but composer was using the PHP version found in the PATH variable.</p>
  
  <p>Solution for me: Since I am using <em>MAMP</em> I modified the PATH in /etc/paths to have the MAMP PHP PATH on the very beginning, e.g.</p>
  
  <pre><code>/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.1.31/bin
  /usr/local/bin
  /usr/bin
  /bin
  /usr/sbin
  /sbin
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After that change <code>composer update</code> should work again as expected (make sure you close your Terminal first and do the update in a new Terminal window). Also <code>php -m</code> should now definitely list the <em>zip extension</em></p>
  
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Body: <p>When doing a <code>composer update</code> in a Craft project on MacOS Catalina, I suddenly get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>***** requires ext-zip * -&gt; the requested PHP extension zip is missing from your system.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>
  
Tags: <craft3><composer><zip>
Title: composer update missing zip extension (ext-zip) on MacOS
ThreadText: # composer update missing zip extension (ext-zip) on MacOS
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-01-31)
  
  When doing a `composer update` in a Craft project on MacOS Catalina, I suddenly get the following error:
  
  ```
  ***** requires ext-zip * -> the requested PHP extension zip is missing from your system.
  
  ```
  
  Any ideas?
  
  **Tags:** craft3, composer, zip
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2020-01-31. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  The reason seems to be that either the *PHP* version of the *MacOS Catalina* update or a version installed via *brew* do not come bundled with the ext-zip extension.
  
  You can verify that by calling `php -m` in the Terminal. You will get a list of all modules and it will not contain the word `zip`
  
  Even if it contains the word `zip` it does not necessarily mean that *composer* has it available. This is caused by the way *ZSH* (shell on MacOS) handles the PATH variable.
  
  In my case I used an *alias* pointing to the MAMP version of PHP (which has zip enabled), but composer was using the PHP version found in the PATH variable.
  
  Solution for me: Since I am using *MAMP* I modified the PATH in /etc/paths to have the MAMP PHP PATH on the very beginning, e.g.
  
  ```
  /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.1.31/bin
  /usr/local/bin
  /usr/bin
  /bin
  /usr/sbin
  /sbin
  
  ```
  
  After that change `composer update` should work again as expected (make sure you close your Terminal first and do the update in a new Terminal window). Also `php -m` should now definitely list the *zip extension*
  
  
  ---
  
  