jalendport / switch-php

Easily switch between PHP versions on your Mac. Requires Homebrew and works with Laravel Valet. 🔀

Hi there 👋

switch-php's Issues

Check if Brew is installed

I have Brew installed already so all good, but I think it would be nice to check for Brew in case user forgot that he/she does not have Brew installed.

Something like this perhaps?

command -v brew >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "Installing Homebrew Now"; \
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"; }

Source: https://gist.github.com/ryanmaclean/4094dfdbb13e43656c3d41eccdceae05

Doesn't seem to be working when switching from the latest version of PHP

Hey there!

When I try and switch from php 7.4.5, nothing seems to happen.

brett~/Sites$ switch-php 7.1
Password:
Valet stopped ✔
PHP switched ✔
Valet started ✔

You are now using PHP 7.4.5

I'd expect PHP 7.1 to be in use after running this.

Stuck on [email protected] after attempting to switch to [email protected]

I have [email protected] and [email protected] installed with brew. Running php switcher gives the following:

$ switch-php 5.6 -v
 👀  Verifying that Valet is installed...
Password:
 🔍  Checking which PHP versions are installed...
 🛑  Stopping Valet...
 ==>  Stopping nginx...
 ✅  Valet stopped
 🔀  Switching to [email protected]...
 ==>  Stopping [email protected]...
 ==>  Unlinking [email protected]...
 ==>  Stopping [email protected]...
 ==>  Unlinking [email protected]...
 ==>  Linking [email protected]...
 ==>  Starting [email protected]...
 ✅  PHP switched
 ⚙  Starting Valet...
 ==>  Starting nginx...
 ✅  Valet started

You are now using PHP 7.1.20

Showing the version gives php 7.1.20

php -v 
PHP 7.1.20 (cli) (built: Jul 20 2018 10:27:12) ( NTS )

Exited terminal, restarted and reading the #2 issue fired the following:

$ brew link --overwrite php
Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/php

Brew doctor:

Warning: Broken symlinks were found. Remove them with `brew prune`:
  /usr/local/bin/php

Then tried manually unlink 7.1:

$ brew unlink [email protected]
Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.1.20... 0 symlinks removed

and relink 5.6:

$ brew link --overwrite --force [email protected]

Linking /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/5.6.37... 25 symlinks created

If you need to have this software first in your PATH instead consider running:
  echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
  echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

..but phpinfo() show me 7.1.20 yet

Stuck on [email protected] after attempting to switch to [email protected]

Thanks Jalen :)

Switcher not working when PHP8 gets installed by running "brew upgrade"

Since homebrew installs [email protected] as php the switcher cannot interact anymore.

Temporary Workaround: running brew link --overwrite [email protected]. Afterwards it's possible to switch between PHP version lower than v8

Command won't change PHP version at all on mac

I'm running mac 10.13 High Sierra. My macos came with php7.1 installed, but I'm trying to use 7.3.

This is the outcome of "php -v" in terminal:

I've installed php 7.3 via HomeBrew and now whenever I try to swicth versions, I get this:

First it says that I'm already using php7.3 which is not true since my php -v command returned php 7.1.
Second, it says that is starting php7.3 and immediately returns saying that I am now using php7.1.

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

PHP 7.3 support

Hi!
PHP 7.3 already stable

Use platform from composer.json

When platform is specified in composer.json, this should be used for switch-php (possibly abbreviated to minor level).
This should work analog to nvm by not specifying any further arguments.

Please tag a release for PHP 7.4 support

Could you please tag a release with the PHP 7.4 support?

Stuck on [email protected] after attempting to switch to [email protected]

I love the idea for this but I can't seem to get it to work correctly. I originally had only PHP 7.1 installed with Homebrew and I use Valet... To test the script I went ahead and just now installed 7.2 with Homebrew then tried to switch:

> switch-php 72 -v -m 512M                                                                               

 👀  Verifying that Valet is installed...
Password:
 🔍  Checking which PHP versions are installed...
 🛑  Stopping Valet...
 ==>  Stopping nginx...
 ✅  Valet stopped
 🔀  Switching to php72...
 ==>  Stopping php71...
 ==>  Unlinking php71...
 ==>  Stopping php72...
 ==>  Unlinking php72...
 ==>  Linking php72...
 ==>  Starting php72...
 ✅  PHP switched
 ⚙  Starting Valet...
 ==>  Starting nginx...
 ==>  Starting dnsmasq...
 ✅  Valet started
 🎛  Configuring PHP...
 ==>  Setting PHP memory to 512M...
 ==>  Restarting PHP...
 ✅  PHP configured

You are now using PHP 7.1.14

Bug? Did I maybe not install 7.2 correctly? I installed 7.2 with brew install php72 php72-igbinary php72-imagick php72-memcached

Imagemagick works on 7.3, but not on 7.2

I've installed imagemagick php and [email protected]

switch-php 7.3
PHP switched ✔

You are now using PHP 7.3.4

switch-php 7.2      
PHP switched ✔
PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20170718/imagick.so (dlopen(/usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20170718/imagick.so, 9): image not found), /usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20170718/imagick.so.so (dlopen(/usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20170718/imagick.so.so, 9): image not found)) in Unknown on line 0

You are now using PHP 
Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20170718/imagick.so (dlopen(/usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20170718/imagick.so, 9): image not found), /usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20170718/imagick.so.so (dlopen(/usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20170718/imagick.so.so, 9): image not found)) in Unknown on line 0
7.2.17

How do I have imagemagick work for both 7.3 and 7.2

Changed formula names in brew

I stumbled across this software when looking through random twitter posts. Since homebrew recently merged all the php formulas in to the core distribution you might want to consider changing the formula names to the new ones.

False "PHP switched" message

$ switch-php 7.2
PHP switched ✔

You are now using PHP 5.4.45
$ which php
/usr/local/bin/php
$ php --version
PHP 5.4.45 (cli) (built: Nov  9 2017 14:09:48)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies

I assume it's because my PHP is not installed via brew. It'd be nice if the tool can show error instead of saying it was successful

COmmand is not working

It seems that the command is not workihng on my end.

PHP 7.4 SUPPORT NOW!!!

Update this for support php 7.4 please and thanks!

theme you are using in your shell ?

thanks for this great work,
gut what theme are you using in your gif in the readme file

Toggle xdebug

Could be a nice feature to add to the scripts.

Stuck on [email protected] after attempting to switch to [email protected]

Macbook Bro - Mojave

➜  ~ switch-php 7.3
Password:
Valet stopped ✔
PHP switched ✔
Valet started ✔

You are now using PHP 7.2.11

I also restarted terminal to make sure but it didn't