Following the recent release of PHP 7.3, Colin O'Dell has put together a guide for those wanting to install it, walking you through the setup for several popular operating systems.

PHP 7.3 has been released, bringing some great new features to the language such as trailing commas in function calls, throwing errors when JSON parsing fails, array_key_first() / array_key_last() functions, and much more!

In the post he includes instructions for:

• Ubuntu
• Debian
• CentOS / RHEL & Fedora
• Mac OS X
• Windows

He even includes instructions for two other tool-based installations: phpbrew and Docker.

Jason McCreary has provided a tutorial on his site today for all of the OS X Mojave users out there about how to install Apache, PHP and MySQL on macOS with the latest operating system changes. This is an update of his previous post covering the same installation on OSX Sierra.

I am aware of the web server software available for macOS, notably MAMP, as well as package managers like brew. These get you started quickly. But they forego the learning experience and, as most developers report, can become difficult to manage.

The thing is macOS runs atop UNIX. So most UNIX software installs easily on macOS. Furthermore, Apache and PHP come preinstalled with macOS. To create a local web server, all you need to do is configure Apache and install MySQL.

He walks you through the full process to get everything up and running:

• testing to ensure Apache can be started (it comes installed by default)
• changing the configuration to enable PHP
• making a phpinfo page in your DocumentRoot to test that PHP is working
• downloading and installing MySQL
• configuration changes required to connect PHP and MySQL

He also includes an example of additional changes such as enabling mod_rewrite and a link to a tutorial about setting up virtual hosts on your local machine.

The OS X users out there are no doubt familiar with the Homebrew package management system that makes it easier to install and update software on your system. This includes PHP and several other related pieces of software. In this post to his site Andy Grunwald shows you how to use Homebrew to migrate your local PHP setup up to PHP 7.2.

Last week, Hans Puac, a colleague of mine, wrote a small guide into our internal company chat on how to migrate your local PHP environment on macOS to the new Homebrew version 1.5.*. The guide helped a lot of other engineers inside trivago. I thought it might help more people from the internet. I asked Hans if I am allowed to share it, and he approved. So kudos belongs to him. Here we go:

With Homebrew 1.5.0 the tap homebrew/php got deprecated. They migrated it to homebrew/core, but this is changing the installation process completely.

He then walks through the steps (complete with the commands required) to make the update happen:

1. Cleanup (the currently installed PHP packages)
2. Update [Homebrew]
3. Install PHP (7.2)
4. Verify the installation
5. Install extensions
6. Cleanup

He also includes a few tips to help you troubleshoot some of the common problems including wrong versions of PHP, wrong php.ini being used and a "module already loaded" issue.

Right on the heels of the release of PHP 7.2.0, Colin O'Dell has posted a guide to installing it on several different operating systems.

type hints, saner count() behavior, and much more.

He then provides the commands you'll need to get your OS of choice updated (well, most of the popular ones at least):

• Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 17.04, & 17.10
• Debian 8 (Jessie) and 9 (Stretch)
• Debian 7 (Wheezy)
• CentOS / RHEL 6+ & Fedora 25+
• Mac OS X
• Windows
• phpbrew
• Docker

Each includes the command(s) you'll need to grab the package and perform the installation. If you need something more customized or your OS isn't listed, you can always compile from source too.

In a new post to his site Christian Weiske shares his interaction with the Open Source group at Apple concerning his Structures_Graph PEAR package. While they were interested in the package and its functionality but with one issue.

Fact is that Structures_Graph is used in the PEAR installer, which is shipped as part of OSX's PHP packages. Apple simply wanted to continue their current setup without changing anything

Unfortunately, Apple had issues with the package being under the LGPLv3 license. They had a concern that, in certain circumstances, the license could allow the owner access to other potentially sensitive information from the user. He lists out his options - bascially either changing the license, asking Apple for compensation or just tell them "no". Unfortunately, if they decide that having it under that license isn't acecptable, they may drop PEAR all together (as the package is a part of the installer itself).

With the recent release of PHP 7.1 you might be asking how you can quickly and easily update your current installation, regardless of the platform. Thankfully Colin O'Dell is here to help with this guide to upgrading to v7.1 on multiple Linux distributions, OSX and Windows.

PHP 7.1 has been released, bringing some great new features and enhancements to the language such as nullable types, the iterable pseudo-type, catching multiple exceptions, and much more.

Here's a brief guide on how to install PHP 7.1 on several different operating systems.

He includes instructions for Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS/RHEL, Mac OS 10.6+ and Windows. Complete commands and links to the downloads are also provided. You have no excuse now not to upgrade - get downloading!

Michelangelo van Dam has posted a "follow up" to his previous article about setting up a PHP installation on the recent versions of Mac OSX. In this new tutorial he makes some updates for the latest OS X release: Sierra.

Apple has released the latest version of their OS X operating system to the broad public and many have already upgraded their mac devices. But as it goes with each release, Apple likes to do things a bit different making it quite challenging for PHP developers to stay current with the latest PHP version (or other versions).

This version of mac OS (11.12) comes pre-installed with PHP 5.6.24. [...] Good for Apple, but this version reaches end-of-life support by the end of this year, so it would be great if you could upgrade to PHP 7.0 or even play with the latest PHP 7.1 release candidates.

While he points out that things like XAMPP and Homebrew can be used to set the installation up, he focuses more on compiling and installing it natively. He shares an issue he had with a missing runtime and how to get it installed and working happily so the PHP compile completes without issues.

Jason McCreary has posted an update to his guide for installing PHP on Mac OS X and replacing the version of PHP that comes with El Capitan (5.5) with a handy package manager more specific to PHP installations.

As noted in my posts on Installing Apache, PHP and MySQL on Mac OS X, OS X comes pre-installed with Apache and PHP. Unfortunately, as of Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) the pre-installed version of PHP is still 5.5. As PHP 5.5 has reached end of life, I imagine the pre-installed version of PHP will be updated with Mac OS 10.12 (Sierra). However, it may only be PHP 5.6.

So what do you do if you want to upgrade or install a different PHP version on your Mac? Well, you could use Homebrew. But I found a pre-packaged alternative - PHP OSX.

With this package manager, the installation is only a few steps but he lists them out with a bit more detail to help you understand what's happening:

• Installing PHP (your choice of version)
• Configuring Apache (loading the php5 shared module)
• Updating your PATH
• Configuring PHP

In a new post to his site Michelangelo van Dam has posted a guide to compiling PHP 7 on OSX "El Capitan", the latest release of the popular Apple operating system.

Apple has made a numerous changes to the way OS X (10.11) "El Capitain" uses open source elements like PHP and OpenSSL. Compiling PHP from source requires a bit more modifications.

This article is a follow-up on my previous post <a href='http://www.dragonbe.com/2015/12/installing-php-7-with-xdebug-apache-and.html">Installing PHP 7 with XDebug, Apache and MySQL on OS X Yosemite.

He then provides the commands and configuration information you'll need to get things up and running:

• OpenSSL
• PHP 7
• Apache

The end result is a simple PHP 7 installation with plenty of features installed.

Michelangelo van Dam has a post to his site, now that PHP 7 is released, showing you how to get it installed on OSX (Yosemite) for your local development.

Yesterday was the release of PHP7.0.0 and I wanted to have it on my mac as fast as possible. Since I'm still using Mac OS X Yosemite I will post here the steps to upgrade my platform, it might be useful for you too.

He starts with the requirements needed for the installation including XCode to be able to compile the PHP from scratch and the latest download of PHP 7 from php.net. He then talks about the benefits of compiling your own installation and shares a script that he uses to compile the PHP version he wants (based on a command line option). Once this is run the typical make and make install are executed and, if all goes well, your output for a /opt/php7/bin/php -v will look the same as his.