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installed PHP XAMPP 7.1.4 in mac but by query below show other version ... is in mac book pro 2016 edition PHP is installed by default?
yyy-mbp:~ yyy$ php -v
PHP 5.6.30 (cli) (built: Feb 7 2017 16:06:52)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
yyy-mbp:~ yyy$

Obviously you have another PHP version installed besides Xampp. And it is in your PATH instead of the Xampp version. Enter "which php" in a terminal to find out, where "php" is found. You will see, it is not from the Xampp folder.