Manage multiple PHP versions easily and comfortably with GatherPHP.
Apache License (version 2)
Just clone the git repository of gatherphp into some directory of your choice and you are good to go!
git clone git://github.com/NeoXiD/gatherphp.gitJust run the following command and a new PHP version will get installed:
# Example: ./install.sh 5.4.10
./install.sh [PHP Version]Notice: Do not use sudo for installing new versions. Either put GatherPHP in a directory where you've got write access to or use an interactive shell. (sudo -i, sudo su...)
GatherPHP will automatically fetch the correct archive, extract, configure and install it. But that is not all yet - you can append flags after the PHP Version, like here:
./install.sh 5.4.10-debug
./install.sh 5.4.10-debug-ztsThe order of the flags does not matter - GatherPHP will sort them for you! These are all the available flags:
- debug compiles a version with debugging symbols
- zts enables thread safety
- 32bits forces the creation of a 32bits version on a 64bit machine
- pear adds & installs PEAR support
After the installation, GatherPHP creates some symlinks in /inst/bin. If you will extend your $PATH variable so that it will point to /path/to/gatherphp/inst/bin, you can use commands like this:
php-5.4.10 ...
phpize-5.4.10-debug ...
pear-5.3.0 ...With GatherPHP, you can also easily change the system-wide standard PHP version. Just execute the following command and a nice 'setup' will guide you through the progress:
./default.shOfcourse you must run this command with the correct permissions. (It will install itself into /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/sbin, so you should use sudo.)
Whenever you install a PHP version, GatherPHP will look for the following files in the custom/ folder:
- options- major.minor.patch-flags .sh (e.g.
options-5.4.10-debug-pear.sh) - options- major.minor-flags .sh (e.g.
options-5.4-debug-pear.sh) - options- major-flags .sh (e.g.
options-5-debug-pear.sh) - options- major.minor.patch .sh (e.g.
options-5.4.10.sh) - options- major.minor .sh (e.g.
options-5.4.sh) - options- major .sh (e.g.
options-5.sh) - options.sh
The first file which can be found will be taken - other files will be ignored. While installating a PHP version, GatherPHP shows you which configure options file will be used. A options file should look like this:
#!/bin/bash
config_options=" \
--disable-all \
--enable-session \
--enable-filter \
--disable-cgi \
"GatherPHP will also look for the following files in the custom/ folder to generate a php.ini file:
- php.ini
- php- major .ini (e.g.
php-5.ini) - php- major.minor .ini (e.g.
php-5.4.ini) - php- major.minor.patch .ini (e.g.
php-5.4.10.ini) - php- major-flags .ini (e.g.
php-5-debug-pear.ini) - php- major.minor-flags .ini (e.g.
php-5.4-debug-pear.ini) - php- major.minor.patch-flags .ini (e.g.
php-5.4.10-debug-pear.ini)
Other than during the configure options part, all the available ini files are merged together in the order specified as above. If no custom file can be found, GatherPHP will try to copy the php.ini-recommended / php.ini-development configuration from the PHP sources. If there is also no configuration file available, GatherPHP will notice you.
GatherPHP also supports post-installation scripts for copying extensions, installating PEAR modules and so on. Again, it will look for the following files in the custom/ folder:
- post-install.sh
- post-install- major .sh (e.g.
post-install-5.sh) - post-install- major.minor .sh (e.g.
post-install-5.4.sh) - post-install- major.minor.patch .sh (e.g.
post-install-5.4.10.sh) - post-install- major-flags .sh (e.g.
post-install-5-debug-pear.sh) - post-install- major.minor-flags .sh (e.g.
post-install-5.4-debug-pear.sh) - post-install- major.minor.patch-flags .sh (e.g.
post-install-5.4.10-debug-pear.sh)
A post-installation script gets called with the following parameters:
/bin/bash script.sh [Installed Version] [Installation Directory] [Binary Directory]GatherPHP - © 2013 P. Mathis (pmathis@snapserv.net)