Homebrew PHP

A centralized repository for PHP-related brews.

Bugs happen

The more information you provide and the more detailed your report is, the easier for us to fix it. The best practice in filling a bug report can be seen for this issue https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-php/issues/1225.

Please refer to this section for more information.

Common Issues

Bugs inevitably happen - none of us is running EVERY conceivable setup - but hopefully the install process can be made smoother through the following tips:

• If you have recently upgraded your Mac OS version or Xcode, read this section.
• Upgrade your OS X to the latest patch version. So if you are on 10.9.0, upgrade to 10.9.2 etc.
• Ensure Xcode is installed and up to date.
• Run brew update. If you tapped an old version of homebrew-php or have an old brew installation, this may cause some installation issues.
• Run brew upgrade. This will upgrade all installed formulae. Sometimes an old version of a formula is installed and this breaks our dependency management. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to force Homebrew to upgrade only those we depend upon. This is a possible fix for those with libxml related compilation issues.
• If brew doctor complains about Error: Failed to import: homebrew-php-requirement or similar, you can find broken PHP requirement files using find $(brew --prefix)/Library/Formula -type l -name "*requirement.rb". Run this with the -delete flag if you are sure the results of the find contain only the files producing import failures. You can also remove them manually.
• If you upgraded to Mavericks 10.9.x, please also upgrade to the latest Xcode, 5.0.1 and make sure you re-install Command Line Tools: xcode-select --install
• On Mavericks 10.9.x, if xcode-select --install displays the error message Can't install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server., download Command Line Tools from Apple Developer.
• If you are using Xcode 4, install the Command Line Tools. If you think you have them installed, please ensure that an update of Xcode or OS X did not remove them. You can verify this by launching Xcode, opening preferences, going to the Downloads tab, and clicking the Install button:
• Delete your ~/.pearrc file before attempting to install a PHP version, as the pear step will fail if an existing, incompatible version exists. We try to detect and remove them ourselves, but sometimes this fails.
• Run brew doctor and fix any issues you can.
• If you are using Mountain Lion 10.8.x, please install XQuartz so that the png.h header exists for compilation of certain brews. Mountain Lion removes X11, which contained numerous headers. A permanent fix is forthcoming.
• If you upgraded to Mountain Lion 10.8.x, please also upgrade to the latest Xcode, 5.1.
• File an awesome bug report, using the information in the next section.
• If you have a failing install due to GD build test failed, try running the following before attempting to reinstall:

brew rm freetype jpeg libpng gd zlib
brew install freetype jpeg libpng gd zlib

Doing all of these might be a hassle, but will more than likely ensure you either have a working install or get help as soon as possible.

Common upgrade issues

If you have recently upgraded your Mac OS X version or Xcode, you may have some compilation or missing libraries issues. The following information may help you solve most of the problems:

• Ensure you have properly upgraded CLT depending on your Xcode version.
• Proceed step by step to isolate the responsible formula. If you need to install php56 and php56-imagick, don't do brew install php56 php56-imagick. Just do brew install php56, ensure everything is working as expected, check the output of phpinfo(), restart your Apache server with sudo apachectl restart. Then you can install the next formula brew install php56-imagick.
• If php53, php55 or php56 build fails, remove all their dependencies and reinstall the formula. For instance: If brew install php56 fails, do the following: brew rm php56 && brew deps php56 | xargs brew rm. If brew install php56 --with-gmp fails, do the following: brew rm php56 && brew deps php56 --with-gmp | xargs brew rm. Then reinstall a clean version of the formula: brew update && brew upgrade && brew install php56.
• If an extension build fails, try also to remove all its dependencies and reinstall it.
• Sometimes it appears that a formula is not available anymore, do the following: brew tap --repair.

Filing Bug Reports

The best practice for filling bug reports can be found here : https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-php/issues/1225.

A blank bug report template can be found here.

You can also copy/paste this markdown and add it in the description of your bug report:

<problem description>

Parameter | Value
------------------ | ------------------
**OS X Version:** | <your OSX version>
**Homebrew Version:** | <your Homebrew version>
**PHP Version in use:** | <your PHP version>
**Xcode Version:** | <your Xcode version>
**Output of gcc -v:** | <result of the CLI output>
**Output of php -v:** | <result of the CLI output>
**Output of brew install -v path/to/homebrew-php/the-formula-you-want-to-test.rb --with-your --opts-here within a gist** | <result of the CLI output>
**Output of brew doctor within a gist** | <the link to your public Gist>

Please include the following information in your bug report:

• OS X Version: ex. 10.7.3, 10.6.3
• Homebrew Version: brew -v
• PHP Version in use: stock-apple, homebrew-php stable, homebrew-php devel, homebrew-php head, custom
• Xcode Version: 4.4, 4.3, 4.0, 3 etc.
  • If you are on Mountain Lion 10.8.x, please also upgrade to the latest Xcode, 4.4.
  • If using 4.3, verify whether you have the Command Line Tools installed as well
  • If on Snow Leopard, you may want to install the OS X GCC Installer
• Output of gcc -v
• Output of php -v
• Output of brew install -v path/to/homebrew-php/the-formula-you-want-to-test.rb --with-your --opts-here within a gist. Please append any options you added to the brew install command.
• Output of brew doctor within a gist

This will help us diagnose your issues much quicker, as well as find commonalities between different reported issues.

Background

This repository contains PHP-related formulae for Homebrew.

(This replaces the PHP formulae that used to live under adamv's homebrew-alt repository.)

The purpose of this repository is to allow PHP developers to quickly retrieve working, up-to-date formulae. The mainline Homebrew repositories are maintained by non-php developers, so testing/maintaining PHP-related brews has fallen by the wayside. If you are a PHP developer using Homebrew, please contribute to this repository.

Requirements

• Homebrew
• Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks. Untested everywhere else.
• The Homebrew dupes tap - brew tap homebrew/dupes
• The Homebrew versions tap - brew tap homebrew/versions

Installation

Setup the homebrew/dupes tap which has dependencies we need:

brew tap homebrew/dupes

Setup the homebrew/versions tap which has dependencies we need:

brew tap homebrew/versions

Then, run the following in your command-line:

brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php

Usage

Note: For a list of available configuration options run:

brew options php56

Once the tap is installed, you can install php53, php54, php55, php56, or any formulae you might need via:

brew install php56

That's it!

Please also follow the instructions from brew info at the end of the install to ensure you properly installed your PHP version.

Installing Multiple Versions

Using multiple PHP versions from homebrew-php is pretty straightforward.

If using Apache, you will need to update the LoadModule call. For convenience, simply comment out the old PHP version:

# /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
# Swapping from PHP 5.5 to PHP 5.6
# $HOMEBREW_PREFIX is normally `/usr/local`
# LoadModule php5_module    $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/Cellar/php55/5.5.18/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
LoadModule php5_module    $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/Cellar/php56/5.6.4/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

If using FPM, you will need to unload the plist controlling php, or manually stop the daemon, via your command line:

# Swapping from PHP 5.5 to PHP 5.6
# $HOMEBREW_PREFIX is normally `/usr/local`
cp $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/Cellar/php56/5.6.4/homebrew.mxcl.php56.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.php55.plist
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.php56.plist

If you would like to swap the PHP you use on the command line, you should update the $PATH variable in either your .profile, .zshrc, .bashrc or .bash_profile:

# Swapping from PHP 5.5 to PHP 5.6
# export PATH="$(brew --prefix homebrew/php/php55)/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="$(brew --prefix homebrew/php/php56)/bin:$PATH"

Please be aware that you must make this type of change EACH time you swap between PHP minor versions. You will typically only need to update the Apache/FPM when upgrading your PHP patch version.

PEAR Extensions

If installing php53, php54, php55 or php56, please note that all extensions installed with the included pear will be installed to the respective php's bin path. For example, supposing you installed PHP_CodeSniffer as follows:

pear install PHP_CodeSniffer

It would be nice to be able to use the phpcs command via command-line, or other utilities. You will need to add the installed php's bin directory to your path. The following would be added to your .bashrc or .bash_profile when running the php56 brew:

export PATH="$(brew --prefix php56)/bin:$PATH"

Some caveats:

• Remember to use the proper PHP version in that export. So if you installed the php55 formula, use php55 instead of php56 in the export.
• Updating your installed PHP will result in the binaries no longer existing within your path. In such cases, you will need to reinstall the pear extensions. Alternatives include installing pear outside of homebrew-php or using the homebrew-php version of your extension.
• Uninstalling your homebrew-php PHP formula will also remove the extensions.

Contributing

The following kinds of brews are allowed:

• PHP Extensions: they may be built with PECL, but installation via Homebrew is sometimes much easier.
• PHP Utilities: php-version, php-build fall under this category.
• Common PHP Web Applications: phpMyAdmin goes here. Note that WordPress would not qualify because it requires other migration steps, such as database migrations etc.
• PHP Frameworks: these are to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Generally, only a recent, stable version of a popular framework will be allowed.

If you have any concerns as to whether your formula belongs in PHP, just open a pull request with the formula and we'll take it from there.

PHP Extension definitions

PHP Extensions MUST be prefixed with phpVERSION. For example, instead of the Solr formula for PHP55 in solr.rb, we would have Php55Solr inside of php56-solr.rb. This is to remove any possible conflicts with mainline Homebrew formulae.

The template for the php56-example pecl extension would be as follows. Please use it as an example for any new extension formulae:

require File.expand_path("../../Abstract/abstract-php-extension", __FILE__)

class Php56Example < AbstractPhp56Extension
  init
  homepage 'http://pecl.php.net/package/example'
  url 'http://pecl.php.net/get/example-1.0.tgz'
  sha1 'SOMEHASHHERE'
  version '1.0'
  head 'https://svn.php.net/repository/pecl/example/trunk', :using => :svn

  def install
    Dir.chdir "example-#{version}" unless build.head?

    ENV.universal_binary if build.universal?

    safe_phpize
    system "./configure", "--prefix=#{prefix}", phpconfig
    system "make"
    prefix.install "modules/example.so"
    write_config_file unless build.include? "without-config-file"
  end
end

Before testing the extension, you will need run the command brew tap --repair to create a symlink in $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/Library/Formula.

Before finalizing the extension, run the command brew audit to check that your formula respects Homebrew best practice and syntax.

Defining extensions inheriting AbstractPhp5(3456). Extension will provide a write_config_file which add ext-{extension}.ini to conf.d, don’t forget to remove it manually upon extension removal. Please see abstract-php-extension.rb for more details.

Please note that your formula installation may deviate significantly from the above; caveats should more or less stay the same, as they give explicit instructions to users as to how to ensure the extension is properly installed.

The ordering of formula attributes, such as the homepage, url, sha1, etc. should follow the above order for consistency. The version is only included when the URL does not include a version in the filename. head installations are not required.

All official PHP extensions should be built for all stable versions of PHP included in homebrew-php. These versions are 5.3.29, 5.4.37, 5.5.21 and 5.6.5.

Todo

• Proper PHP Versioning? See issue #1
• Pull out all PHP-related brews from Homebrew

License

Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Jose Diaz-Gonzalez and other contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.