I am going to several sites with php framework - Laravel, but each laravel framework requires different php versions.
I want to set up xampp in one computer, so I am going to develop on various kinds of php versions.
What shall I do? Using docker is somewhat complicated, other way else?
There is an alternative called MAMP. With MAMP PRO, you can edit the PHP version for each project you have running without any kind of edits to the files.
It automatically edits the hostfile for you aswell, and you can enable a lot of extra known php extentions in the setting.
You don't have to worry about installing multiple applications or interfering with different ports. It's basically press and play
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I have a new CentOS server, plan to use it for all the php projects, currently i have many php 5.6+ projects & one php 7 project at two different servers. We knew we will upgrade the php version or even mysql version in future, so what is the trend or approaches for hosting different versions of php projects?
Did some researches about Docker & Rancher or install multiple PHP versions in one server and controlled by ngnix. But still not sure which one is the best approach, first option seems need to understand well about dockers or kubernetes, the learning curve will be higher.
Currently Cloud environment is not in my consideration. All these projects are system tool and applications (intranet, CRM), not eCommerce.
You should use PHP via FPM (FastCGI Process Manager), which is available for all recent PHP versions including the older releases like PHP 5.6. This is true at least for Ubuntu when using Ondrej's PPA. I guess there should be a way to achieve parallel PHP installations in CentOS as well.
With FPM you could use Nginx as well as Apache as your webserver. I would recommend Nginx, but it's up to you. There are plenty of tutorials for both of them.
Then, you would configure each virtual host according to your needs to use PHP 5.6 or 7.x respectively. With FPM pools each virtual host can be configured independently, even dedicated php.ini files are no problem.
Have a look at this blog post, which is quite to the point from my personal view.
Please help me, I have developed an application using Yii2 Framework which requires PHP5.6 or greater, and while deployment of the application on the test server I have noticed that on the test server we are using PHP5.5, So please tell me what can I do? The test server is running Ubuntu.
(Minimum requirement of Yii2 is PHP5.6 and we are using PHP5.5)
Thank You.
if I recall correctly, PHP 5.5.X and 5.6.X are not that different. So if you can deploy your application and it runs properly, you should be fine. If you are using composer, it might be harder (or impossible) to spoof your PHP version, though.
My two cents:
You tagged AWS (and therefor probably EC2), so why don't you just update your PHP version? Why don't you run your application on PHP 7.X anyway? It is a great improvement - performance-wise.
You can try a few things...
1) Do you need to have the dev modules from Composer on the test server? If not do a composer install —no-dev
2) Another switch worth trying on the test server is “--ignore-platform-reqs” I don’t recommend it and even though composer install the files the application might not work.
3) If the above isn’t a fix for you, modify your Composer file to put in the constraints of your environments, change your local environment to match the test server, and re-factor the application if necessary. I’d do that instead of rewriting a whole app in Yii1.
You might want to edit your question and add the information about your composer.json file. Do you commit the composer.lock file to source control?
Additionally, not wise for your company to use anything older than PHP 5.6. And PHP 5.6 will have security support ended in Dec 2018. http://php.net/supported-versions.php
Read the following PHP documentation linked below, particularly the backward incompatibility changes and deprecated features. If you use any of those, you need to change your code. If you don't, then you should be fine. You need to test it.
http://php.net/manual/en/migration56.php
I'm used to using python's virtualenv tool to create separate environments that can mimic deployment environments for projects I write.
Now, I'm going to be working on a php project and I'm wondering if there's any equivalent to that? Specifically I'm hoping to be able to run one virtualhost on apache with one (older) version of php, while everything else runs on the normal up to date version.
My development machine is running ubuntu 11.04, so solutions that work on that platform would be preferred.
Assuming that you are using mod_php, there is no way to load multiple different versions into the same Apache instance. You can run multiple different versions if you're running PHP as CGI or FastCGI, but this will itself introduce some differences in behavior from mod_php.
Another alternative to virtual machines is docker.
As loading different versions of php within apache with mod_php seems not to be posible, the easiest way of mimicking deployment and development setups will be with a virtualmachine, which you stated you would like to avoid.
One way of making the burden of vm's for developers a bit easier is to use something like vagrant. With two files (the vagrant file, and the chef/puppet file) you can "version" your vm's, easily create them and destroy them for each project and when needed.
virtPHP is a tool for creating and managing multiple isolated PHP environments on a single machine. It's like Python's virtualenv, but for PHP. (README)
https://github.com/virtphp/virtphp
You might be interested in this: https://github.com/phpenv/phpenv
(Haven't coded php in years, so this might be outdated)
As far as I remember you just had to point to another directory where your libraries reside (include PATH), using something like:
include_path = .:/usr/local/lib/php:./include (this goes in php.ini, default libararies)
and in your php files:
ini_set("include_path", ".:../:./include:../include");
PHP never really had a robust packaging system and library repository like perl/python/ruby has, PEAR was trying to move in that direction but it is very closed in comparison and was hard to configure in multiproject environments.
Phark is trying to build a brew/bundler port for php, https://github.com/lox/phark, although it's not deployment ready.
As of now, there is no out of the box solution to this problem. The only solution which comes close is Vagrant and puPHPet.com as discussed here: https://drupal.org/node/2055947
Why can't we have an environment like python's virtualenv or ruby's rbenv? It makes up a nice open source project. Multiple instances of PHP can be handy if we want to test out some libraries in sandboxes rather than globally. We can install dependencies for different projects using a package manager like Composer.
Cloudlinux with PHP Selector has this for ages. It is integrated with popular control panels like CPanel, DirectAdmin etc.
Each linux account can have its own version of php and select any extensions they sit fit.
https://www.cloudlinux.com/php-selector
I'm used to using python's virtualenv tool to create separate environments that can mimic deployment environments for projects I write.
Now, I'm going to be working on a php project and I'm wondering if there's any equivalent to that? Specifically I'm hoping to be able to run one virtualhost on apache with one (older) version of php, while everything else runs on the normal up to date version.
My development machine is running ubuntu 11.04, so solutions that work on that platform would be preferred.
Assuming that you are using mod_php, there is no way to load multiple different versions into the same Apache instance. You can run multiple different versions if you're running PHP as CGI or FastCGI, but this will itself introduce some differences in behavior from mod_php.
Another alternative to virtual machines is docker.
As loading different versions of php within apache with mod_php seems not to be posible, the easiest way of mimicking deployment and development setups will be with a virtualmachine, which you stated you would like to avoid.
One way of making the burden of vm's for developers a bit easier is to use something like vagrant. With two files (the vagrant file, and the chef/puppet file) you can "version" your vm's, easily create them and destroy them for each project and when needed.
virtPHP is a tool for creating and managing multiple isolated PHP environments on a single machine. It's like Python's virtualenv, but for PHP. (README)
https://github.com/virtphp/virtphp
You might be interested in this: https://github.com/phpenv/phpenv
(Haven't coded php in years, so this might be outdated)
As far as I remember you just had to point to another directory where your libraries reside (include PATH), using something like:
include_path = .:/usr/local/lib/php:./include (this goes in php.ini, default libararies)
and in your php files:
ini_set("include_path", ".:../:./include:../include");
PHP never really had a robust packaging system and library repository like perl/python/ruby has, PEAR was trying to move in that direction but it is very closed in comparison and was hard to configure in multiproject environments.
Phark is trying to build a brew/bundler port for php, https://github.com/lox/phark, although it's not deployment ready.
As of now, there is no out of the box solution to this problem. The only solution which comes close is Vagrant and puPHPet.com as discussed here: https://drupal.org/node/2055947
Why can't we have an environment like python's virtualenv or ruby's rbenv? It makes up a nice open source project. Multiple instances of PHP can be handy if we want to test out some libraries in sandboxes rather than globally. We can install dependencies for different projects using a package manager like Composer.
Cloudlinux with PHP Selector has this for ages. It is integrated with popular control panels like CPanel, DirectAdmin etc.
Each linux account can have its own version of php and select any extensions they sit fit.
https://www.cloudlinux.com/php-selector
I've just started reading about php, it needs me to install php, apache and MySql to run any php script. can any one suggest me a simplest method to install php, apache and MySql so that i can sun those php script.
I've tried the zip files from php.net, Are those required to run the script offline for practicing the script? what do i do with them? i felt the things given on the same site a bit complex, and was unable to run the script. please help.
I'm assuming you're using Windows - get wamp - it has exactly what you need:
Apache
MySQL
PHP
Wamp comes with a nifty tray controller app which you can use to access the most common tasks, like restarting services, editing config, etc.
Equivalent to Artem's post, just a different organization which packages it differently. And my preference. It is called XAMPP.
If you are using Windows, you could install XAMPP to have the environment setup for you. You'll then need to learn how to bring up the server (basically executing the XAMPP control panel program), copy your PHP scripts into the correct directories (for XAMPP, it'd be C:/[xampp installation dir]/htdocs), access MySQL and creating the necessary MySQL databases (you could access the MySQL via the included PhpMyAdmin).
You can probably refer to a tutorial here (it's a YouTube video, BTW).
Don't have enough rep to comment but wanted to add something to Artem's recommendation of Wampserver. It's what I use on my windows machine, and one of the nicest things about it I find is the ability to have multiple versions of versions of apache, php and mysql installed alongside each other as plug-ins and then select which to have running at any time. It makes it easy for me to emulate the eventual hosting environment for any given project.