title: How to install multiple XAMPP versions OR Multiple PHP versions on MAC OS X 10.7 Lion
body: <p>I need to do some work on a legacy system that requires PHP 5.2</p>
  
  <p>I already have XAMP 1.7.3 installed but this version has PHP 5.3.</p>
  
  <p>Since this a work I might do for a couple of times in the next months, I was thinking about installing a XAMP version that runs PHP 5.2
  At the same time I'm involved into some work that requires me to use PHP 5.3, so I just can`t uninstall my current XAMP version and install one that uses PHP 5.2</p>
  
  <p>On <a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html" rel="noreferrer" title="XAMPP Download Website">XAMPP Download Website</a> it's pretty clear that on installing any XAMPP version it will remove previous one. I've done some research but couldn't find a way to get around this.</p>
  
  <p>I managed to find phpswitch under /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/ and using it's list action showed me that I only have PHP 5.3.1 installed and active. I tried to figured out on how to download/install/activate PHP 5.2 using phpswitch but had no success.</p>
  
  <p>So what I'm looking for is a way to install multiple XAMPP or installing PHP 5.2 and activating it for XAMPP (either through phpswitch or another way)</p>