PHPBrew
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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.
Requirement
Please see Requirement before you get started. you need to install some development packages for building PHP.
QUICK START
Please see Quick Start if you're impatient. :-p
GETTING STARTED
OK, I assume you have more time to work on this, this is a step-by-step tutorial that helps you get started.
Installation
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
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
Setting up lookup prefix
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
Basic usage
To list known versions:
phpbrew known
7.0: 7.0.3, 7.0.2, 7.0.1, 7.0.0 ...
5.6: 5.6.18, 5.6.17, 5.6.16, 5.6.15, 5.6.14, 5.6.13, 5.6.12, 5.6.11 ...
5.5: 5.5.32, 5.5.31, 5.5.30, 5.5.29, 5.5.28, 5.5.27, 5.5.26, 5.5.25 ...
5.4: 5.4.45, 5.4.44, 5.4.43, 5.4.42, 5.4.41, 5.4.40, 5.4.39, 5.4.38 ...
5.3: 5.3.29, 5.3.28 ...
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
Starting Building Your Own PHP
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/[email protected] as php-7.2.0-dev
To install the next (unstable) version:
$ phpbrew install next as php-7.3.0-dev
Cleaning up build directory
$ phpbrew clean php-5.4.0
Variants
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.
Extra Configure Options
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 And Switch
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
The Extension Installer
Configuring the php.ini for current php version
Simply run:
$ phpbrew config
You may specify the EDITOR environment variable to your favorite editor:
export EDITOR=vim
phpbrew config
Upgrade phpbrew
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
The Installed PHP(s)
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
Quick commands to switch between directories
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
PHP FPM
phpbrew also provides useful fpm managing sub-commands. to use them, please remember to enable +fpm variant when building your own php.
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-fpmis located in~/.phpbrew/php/php-*/sbin.The correspond
php-fpm.confis 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}
Enabling Version Info Prompt
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) \$ "
Known Issues
-
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
Troubleshooting
Please see TroubleShooting
FAQ
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
Contribution
Please see Contribution
Documentation
Please see Wiki
Author
- Yo-An Lin (c9s)
- Márcio Almad
License
See LICENSE file.
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