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phpbrew builds and installs multiple version php(s) in your $HOME directory.
What phpbrew can do for you:
- Configure options are simplified into variants, no worries about the path anymore!
- Build php with different variants like PDO, mysql, sqlite, debug ...etc.
- Compile apache php module and separate them by different versions.
- Build and install php(s) in your home directory, so you don't need root permission.
- Switch versions very easily and is integrated with bash/zsh shell.
- Automatic feature detection.
- Install & enable php extensions into current environment with ease.
- Install multiple php into system-wide environment.
- Path detection optimization for HomeBrew and MacPorts.
Please see Requirement before you get started. you need to install some development packages for building PHP.
Please see Quick Start if you're impatient. :-p
OK, I assume you have more time to work on this, this is a step-by-step tutorial that helps you get started.
curl -L -O https://github.com/phpbrew/phpbrew/releases/latest/download/phpbrew.phar
chmod +x phpbrew.phar
# Move the file to some directory within your $PATH
sudo mv phpbrew.phar /usr/local/bin/phpbrew
Init a bash script for your shell environment:
phpbrew init
Add these lines to your .bashrc
or .zshrc
file:
[[ -e ~/.phpbrew/bashrc ]] && source ~/.phpbrew/bashrc
- Specifically for
fish
shell users, add following lines to your~/.config/fish/config.fish
file*:
source ~/.phpbrew/phpbrew.fish
If you're using system-wide phpbrew, you may setup a shared phpbrew root, for example:
mkdir -p /opt/phpbrew
phpbrew init --root=/opt/phpbrew
You may setup your preferred default prefix for looking up libraries, available
options are macports
, homebrew
, debian
, ubuntu
or a custom path:
For Homebrew users:
phpbrew lookup-prefix homebrew
For Macports users:
phpbrew lookup-prefix macports
To list known versions:
phpbrew known
8.2: 8.2.4, 8.2.3, 8.2.2, 8.2.1, 8.2.0 ...
8.1: 8.1.17, 8.1.16, 8.1.15, 8.1.14, 8.1.13, 8.1.12, 8.1.11, 8.1.10 ...
8.0: 8.0.28, 8.0.27, 8.0.26, 8.0.25, 8.0.24, 8.0.23, 8.0.22, 8.0.21 ...
7.4: 7.4.33, 7.4.32, 7.4.30, 7.4.29, 7.4.28, 7.4.27, 7.4.26, 7.4.25 ...
7.3: 7.3.33, 7.3.32, 7.3.31, 7.3.30, 7.3.29, 7.3.28, 7.3.27, 7.3.26 ...
7.2: 7.2.34, 7.2.33, 7.2.32, 7.2.31, 7.2.30, 7.2.29, 7.2.28, 7.2.27 ...
7.1: 7.1.33, 7.1.32, 7.1.31, 7.1.30, 7.1.29, 7.1.28, 7.1.27, 7.1.26 ...
7.0: 7.0.33, 7.0.32 ...
To show more minor versions:
$ phpbrew known --more
To update the release info:
$ phpbrew update
To get older versions (less than 5.4)
Please note that we don't guarantee that you can build the php versions that are not supported by offical successfully, please don't fire any issue about the older versions, these issues won't be fixed.
$ phpbrew update --old
To list known older versions (less than 5.4)
$ phpbrew known --old
Simply build and install PHP with default variant:
$ phpbrew install 5.4.0 +default
Here we suggest default
variant set, which includes most commonly used
variants, if you need a minimum install, just remove the default
variant set.
You can enable parallel compilation by passing -j
or --jobs
option and
the following is an example:
$ phpbrew install -j $(nproc) 5.4.0 +default
With tests:
$ phpbrew install --test 5.4.0
With debug messages:
$ phpbrew -d install --test 5.4.0
To install older versions (less than 5.3):
$ phpbrew install --old 5.2.13
To install the latest patch version of a given release:
$ phpbrew install 5.6
To install a pre-release version:
$ phpbrew install 7.2.0alpha1
$ phpbrew install 7.2.0beta2
$ phpbrew install 7.2.0RC3
To install from a GitHub tag or branch name:
$ phpbrew install github:php/php-src@PHP-7.2 as php-7.2.0-dev
To install the next (unstable) version:
$ phpbrew install next as php-7.3.0-dev
$ phpbrew clean php-5.4.0
PHPBrew arranges configure options for you, you can simply specify variant name, and phpbrew will detect include paths and build options for configuring.
PHPBrew provides default variants and some virtual variants, to the default variants, which includes the most commonly used variants, to the virtual variants, which defines a variant set, you may use one virtual variant to enable multiple variants at one time.
To check out what is included in these variants, run phpbrew variants
to list these variants.
To enable one variant, add a prefix +
before the variant name, eg
+mysql
To disable one variant, add a prefix -
before the variant name.
-debug
For example, if we want to build PHP with the default options and database supports (mysql, sqlite, postgresql), you may simply run:
$ phpbrew install 5.4.5 +default+dbs
You may also build PHP with extra variants:
$ phpbrew install 5.3.10 +mysql+sqlite+cgi
$ phpbrew install 5.3.10 +mysql+debug+pgsql +apxs2
$ phpbrew install 5.3.10 +pdo +mysql +pgsql +apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2
To build PHP with pgsql (PostgreSQL) extension:
$ phpbrew install 5.4.1 +pgsql+pdo
Or build pgsql extension with postgresql base dir on Mac OS X:
$ phpbrew install 5.4.1 +pdo+pgsql=/opt/local/lib/postgresql91/bin
The pgsql path is the location of pg_config
, you could find pg_config
in the /opt/local/lib/postgresql91/bin
To build PHP with neutral compile options, you can specify neutral
virtual variant, which means that phpbrew
doesn't add any additional compile options including --disable-all
. But some options(for example --enable-libxml
)
are still automatically added to support pear
installation.
You can build PHP with neutral
:
$ phpbrew install 5.4.1 +neutral
For more details, please check out PHPBrew Cookbook.
To pass extra configure arguments, you can do this:
$ phpbrew install 5.3.10 +mysql +sqlite -- \
--enable-ftp --apxs2=/opt/local/apache2/bin/apxs
Use (switch version temporarily):
$ phpbrew use 5.4.22
Switch PHP version (switch default version)
$ phpbrew switch 5.4.18
Turn Off:
$ phpbrew off
If you enable apache PHP modules, remember to comment out or remove the settings.
$ sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
# LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/libphp5.3.21.so
# LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/libphp5.3.20.so
Simply run:
$ phpbrew config
You may specify the EDITOR environment variable to your favorite editor:
export EDITOR=vim
phpbrew config
To upgrade phpbrew, you may simply run the self-update
command,
this command enables you to install the latest version of
master
branch from GitHub:
$ phpbrew self-update
To list all installed php(s), you could run:
$ phpbrew list
The installed phps are located in ~/.phpbrew/php
, for example, php 5.4.20 is located at:
~/.phpbrew/php/5.4.20/bin/php
And you should put your configuration file in:
~/.phpbrew/php/5.4.20/etc/php.ini
Extension configuration files should be put in:
~/.phpbrew/php/5.4.20/var/db
~/.phpbrew/php/5.4.20/var/db/xdebug.ini
~/.phpbrew/php/5.4.20/var/db/apc.ini
~/.phpbrew/php/5.4.20/var/db/memcache.ini
... etc
Switching to PHP build directory
$ phpbrew build-dir
Switching to PHP dist directory
$ phpbrew dist-dir
Switching to PHP etc directory
$ phpbrew etc-dir
Switching to PHP var directory
$ phpbrew var-dir
phpbrew also provides useful fpm managing sub-commands. to use them, please
remember to enable +fpm
variant when building your own php.
To setup the system FPM service, type one of commands:
# Typing the following command when systemctl is available in the Linux distribution.
$ phpbrew fpm setup --systemctl
# It is available in the Linux distribution.
$ phpbrew fpm setup --initd
# It is available in the macOS.
$ phpbrew fpm setup --launchctl
To start php-fpm, simply type:
$ phpbrew fpm start
To stop php-fpm, type:
$ phpbrew fpm stop
To show php-fpm modules:
phpbrew fpm module
To test php-fpm config:
phpbrew fpm test
To edit php-fpm config:
phpbrew fpm config
The installed
php-fpm
is located in~/.phpbrew/php/php-*/sbin
.The correspond
php-fpm.conf
is located in~/.phpbrew/php/php-*/etc/php-fpm.conf.default
, you may copy the default config file to the desired location. e.g.,cp -v ~/.phpbrew/php/php-*/etc/php-fpm.conf.default ~/.phpbrew/php/php-*/etc/php-fpm.conf php-fpm --php-ini {php config file} --fpm-config {fpm config file}
To add PHP version info in your shell prompt, you can use
"PHPBREW_SET_PROMPT=1"
variable.
The default is "PHPBREW_SET_PROMPT=0"
(disable). To enable it, you can add this
line to your ~/.bashrc
file and put this line before you source
~/.phpbrew/bashrc
.
export PHPBREW_SET_PROMPT=1
To embed version info in your prompt, you can use
phpbrew_current_php_version
shell function, which is defined in .phpbrew/bashrc
.
and you can set the version info in your PS1
var.
e.g.
PS1=" \$(phpbrew_current_php_version) \$ "
-
For PHP-5.3+ versions, "Building intl 64-bit fails on OS X" https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48795
-
To build PHP with GD extension, you need to specify your libpng dir and libjpeg dir, for example,
$ phpbrew install php-5.4.10 +default +mysql +intl +gettext +apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2
-- --with-libdir=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
--with-gd=shared
--enable-gd-natf
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr
--with-png-dir=/usr
Please see TroubleShooting
Q: How do I have the same version with different compile option?
A: Currently, you can install php-5.x.x and rename the /Users/phpbrew/.phpbrew/php/php-5.x.x folder to the new name, for example, php-5.x.x-super , and install another php-5.x.x
Please see Contribution
Please see Wiki
only listing 1k+ lines contributors, names are sorted in alphabetical order
- @c9s
- @GM-Alex
- @jhdxr
- @marcioAlmada
- @morozov
- @markwu
- @peter279k
- @racklin
- @shinnya
See LICENSE file.