composer-install vs setup-php

composer-install

:gift: A GitHub Action to streamline installation of PHP dependencies with Composer. (by ramsey)

setup-php

GitHub action to set up PHP with extensions, php.ini configuration, coverage drivers, and various tools. (by shivammathur)

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composer-install		setup-php
	Project
2	Mentions	31
219	Stars	2,790
-	Growth	-
5.9	Activity	8.8
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Shell	Language	TypeScript
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.

composer-install

Posts with mentions or reviews of composer-install. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-02.

Overwrite composer source URL in CI?
3 projects | /r/PHP | 2 Mar 2023

All you really have to do is persist this directory between individual CI runs. Check out https://github.com/ramsey/composer-install for an existing implementation.
A GitHub Workflow to Check the Compatibility of Your PHP Package with a Range of Dependency Versions
8 projects | dev.to | 5 Jul 2022

Composer Install (GitHub Action)

setup-php

Posts with mentions or reviews of setup-php. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-23.

Write a PHP library supports PHP 5.6 to 8.1
5 projects | dev.to | 23 Oct 2022

I found shivammathur/setup-php did a better job on supporting old PHP versions, and you don't have to worry about the composer & extension compatibility, it handles those for you.
Deployer v7 release
2 projects | /r/laravel | 26 Jul 2022

this is a good base https://github.com/shivammathur/setup-php
GitHub Action for PHP (shivammathur/setup-php) v2.21.0 released
1 project | /r/PHP | 19 Jul 2022
A GitHub Workflow to Check the Compatibility of Your PHP Package with a Range of Dependency Versions
8 projects | dev.to | 5 Jul 2022

Setup PHP (GitHub Action)
GitHub Action for PHP (shivammathur/setup-php) v2.19.0 released
2 projects | /r/PHP | 30 May 2022

There is also an RSS feed you can subscribe for setup-php releases https://github.com/shivammathur/setup-php/releases.atom

1 project | /r/PHP | 29 May 2022
GitHub Action for PHP (shivammathur/setup-php) v2.18.0 released
1 project | /r/laravel | 22 Mar 2022

1 project | /r/PHP | 22 Mar 2022
GitHub Action for PHP (shivammathur/setup-php) v2.17.0 released
1 project | /r/laravel | 8 Feb 2022

1 project | /r/PHP | 8 Feb 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing composer-install and setup-php you can also consider the following projects:

nexus-repository-composer - Composer support for the Nexus Repository Manager (work in progress!)

Phing - PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on Apache Ant.

velocita-proxy - Velocita - Composer caching reverse proxy

Rector - Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code

Money - PHP implementation of Fowler's Money pattern.

Construct - A PHP project/micro-package generator for PDS compliant projects or micro-packages.

php-compatibility-demo - Example PHP library using a GitHub Actions workflow to check whether the code is compatible with a range of PHP and dependency versions

Bob - Hi I'm Bob! I'm a tiny and messy build tool for PHP projects

PHPUnit - The PHP Unit Testing framework.

qodana-action - ⚙️ Scan your Go, Java, Kotlin, PHP, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, .NET projects at GitHub with Qodana. This repository contains Qodana for Azure, GitHub, CircleCI and Gradle

openapi-httpfoundation-testing - Validate your HttpFoundation requests and responses against OpenAPI (3+) definitions

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