PHP

PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development.

Requirements

• For Debian, use Sury PHP.
• For Ubuntu, use Ondřej Surý.

Debian

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt -y install lsb-release ca-certificates curl
sudo curl -sSL -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list'
sudo apt update -y

Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt update -y

Install PHP

Here, PHP 8.2 is used as an example. You can replace it with the version you want.

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This guide uses fpm as the PHP handler to use with NGINX.

sudo apt -y install php8.2-fpm

Install extensions

Here are some common PHP extensions:

sudo apt install -y php8.2-mbstring \
  php8.2-mysql \
  php8.2-common \
  php8.2-cli \
  php8.2-dev \
  php8.2-xml \
  php8.2-curl \
  php8.2-gd \
  php8.2-imagick \
  php8.2-imap \
  php8.2-opcache \
  php8.2-soap \
  php8.2-zip \
  php8.2-bz2 \
  php8.2-intl

Fix PHP-FPM owner

If you use NGINX, you need to change the PHP-FPM owner to nginx. You have to change the owner in the PHP-FPM configuration file for each PHP version you have installed.

sudo sed -i 's/www-data/nginx/' /etc/php/8.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

Restart PHP-FPM:

sudo systemctl restart php8.2-fpm

Composer

Use command line instructions of Composer website to download and install latest version of Composer

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

You have just to copy installation instructions and composer will be download, this is an example:

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
sudo chown -R $USER ~/.config/composer/

Global package

To install global package like laravel

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This is an example, you can replace laravel with any package you want.

composer global require laravel/installer

Add this to .zshrc

vim ~/.zshrc

export PATH=~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH

source ~/.zshrc

Now you can use composer.

Switch PHP

To switch PHP versions, use the following command:

sudo update-alternatives --config php

Usage

Specific PHP version

If you installed multiple PHP versions, you can use a specific version by specifying the version number.

php8.2 -v

PHP version

To see the current PHP version, run the following command:

php -v

You can change current version with Switch PHP

PHP modules

php -m

Specific module

php -m | grep <module>

Example:

php -m | grep curl

If you see curl in the output, it means the curl module is installed.