Laravel Valet vs PHP Brew

Laravel Valet

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PHP Brew

Brew & manage PHP versions in pure PHP at HOME (by phpbrew)

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Laravel Valet		PHP Brew
	Project
-	Mentions	2
384	Stars	5,305
-	Growth	0.7%
2.0	Activity	4.8
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
PHP	Language	Makefile
MIT License	License	MIT License

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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.

Laravel Valet

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

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

PHP Brew

Posts with mentions or reviews of PHP Brew. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-12.

Are there any plans on making PHP 8 a normal apt repository?
5 projects | /r/PHP | 12 May 2023

If you don’t want to use docker, I’d suggest looking at PHP Brew or phpenv
Windows or Linux, that is the question
3 projects | /r/PHP | 14 Dec 2021

You can use something like this to install any version you want.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Laravel Valet and PHP Brew you can also consider the following projects:

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.

PHPEnv - Simple PHP version management

PHP Switch

PHP Env - Thin Wrapper around rbenv for PHP version managment

DoliMed - This project is the offical repository to store sources of the DoliMed module, a module for Dolibarr ERP CRM Open Source software, to manage a medical center.

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

HomeBrew PHP

VirtPHP

PHP Build - Builds PHP so that multiple versions can be used side by side.

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

powershell-phpmanager - A PowerShell module to install/update PHP, PHP extensions and Composer on Windows