Brew PHP Switcher vs PHP Build

Brew PHP Switcher

Brew PHP switcher is a simple shell script to switch your apache and CLI quickly between major versions of PHP. If you support multiple products/projects that are built using either brand new or old legacy PHP functionality. For users of Homebrew (or brew for short) currently only. (by philcook)

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PHP Build

Builds PHP so that multiple versions can be used side by side. (by php-build)

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php-build.github.io

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Brew PHP Switcher		PHP Build
	Project
1	Mentions	2
945	Stars	989
-	Growth	0.0%
3.8	Activity	6.4
5 months ago	Latest Commit	12 days ago
Shell	Language	Shell
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Brew PHP Switcher

Posts with mentions or reviews of Brew PHP Switcher. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-02.

I think I need a tutorial for running PHP code via Mac with installed homebrew, etc.
2 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 2 Sep 2022

PHP Build

Posts with mentions or reviews of PHP Build. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Errors installing PHP 7.3.9/7.2 with phpenv install
1 project | /r/archlinux | 4 Feb 2022

I posted this issue on the PHP-Build Github page hoping someone could help me, but if anyone on this subreddit can help me I woul appreciate it!
Errors installing PHP 7.3.9 using phpenv install. Not sure how to solve it...
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 4 Feb 2022

Hi everyone, I opened this issue on the phpenv-installer github regarding some problems I have installing PHP 7.3.9, can anyone help me out?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Brew PHP Switcher and PHP Build you can also consider the following projects:

Laravel Valet

PHP Brew - Brew & manage PHP versions in pure PHP at HOME

homebrew-auto-upgrade - A shell script to prompt an auto-upgrade of Homebrew packages 📦 ⬆️

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

PHPEnv - Simple PHP version management

lando - A development tool for all your projects that is fast, easy, powerful and liberating

PHP Env - Thin Wrapper around rbenv for PHP version managment

HomeBrew PHP

PHP OSX - DEPRECATED: See https://php-osx.liip.ch/ for details. The uploader and website for the PHP 5 package for OS X 10.6 built with https://github.com/liip/build-entropy-php

PHP Switch

VirtPHP