PHP support

[kbarendrecht]

It would be nice to have support for PHP as a core tool

current registry plugins not installable

the default php plugins in the registry (vox & asdf) both were not installable for me on ubuntu 24.
they both require gdlib, which i'm not sure how to install

• at least not by apt install gdlib
• apt-get install libgd-dev says i have broken packages, not sure how to proceed

dependencies are an anti-goal of the project, so I understand I wont get help with that

vfox:php

configure: error: Package requirements (gdlib >= 2.1.0) were not met:

Package 'gdlib', required by 'virtual:world', not found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GDLIB_CFLAGS
and GDLIB_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
mise ERROR failed to install vfox:[email protected]
mise ERROR runtime error: ...l/share/mise/plugins/vfox-php/hooks/post_install.lua:52: Compilation Failure.
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'error'
        ...l/share/mise/plugins/vfox-php/hooks/post_install.lua:52: in function 'CompileInstallPHP'
        ...l/share/mise/plugins/vfox-php/hooks/post_install.lua:13: in function 'PostInstall'
        [string "/cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8..."]:1: in main chunk
mise ERROR Run with --verbose or MISE_VERBOSE=1 for more information

asdf:php

configure: error: Package requirements (gdlib >= 2.1.0) were not met:

Package 'gdlib', required by 'virtual:world', not found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GDLIB_CFLAGS
and GDLIB_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
mise ERROR failed to install asdf:[email protected]
mise ERROR ~/.local/share/mise/plugins/asdf-php/bin/install exited with non-zero status: exit code 1
mise ERROR Run with --verbose or MISE_VERBOSE=1 for more information

alternative plugin

Right now i've aliased a asdf plugin to get an installable version, but this builds php from source which is slow. (and quits twice during install to request installing system build dependencies)

[alias]
php = "asdf:https://github.com/ramsey/asdf-php.git"

no extension support

i've added a postinstall script to install extensions, this would be nice to have that as tool options

mise default plugin

I honestly cant use the two default plugins. maybe the default plugin for php should be the one from ramsey (php contributor)?

[hverlin]

There is no php-build that make it easy to install php anywhere on your system.
See also: #4560 (reply in thread)

To get vfox php to work, you need to install the following dependencies on Ubuntu according to the vfox php readme:

 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y autoconf bison build-essential curl gettext git libgd-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libedit-dev libicu-dev libjpeg-dev libmysqlclient-dev libonig-dev libpng-dev libpq-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libzip-dev openssl pkg-config re2c zlib1g-dev

[kbarendrecht]

Thanks for the quick reply. I wasn't able to install libgd-dev just now, it told me my packages were broken.
After running your command it worked, and it installed. 🙏 (probably because of update)

default plugin

Ramsey's plugin uses libgdbm-dev which worked. (and has support for instaling php extensions) so that might be a better default plugin?

Php build

On the case of no php-build; would using pre-built php binaries be acceptable?

ubuntu through a PPA.
For mac use https://github.com/shivammathur/homebrew-php
There might be some for windows as well?