PHP Brew vs VirtPHP

PHP Brew

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

Source Code

phpbrew.github.io

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VirtPHP

By virtphp

PHP Installation

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PHP Brew		VirtPHP
	Project
2	Mentions	-
5,300	Stars	535
0.6%	Growth	-
4.8	Activity	0.0
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	-
Makefile	Language	PHP
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.

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.

VirtPHP

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning VirtPHP yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

PHPEnv - Simple PHP version management

PHP Env - Thin Wrapper around rbenv for PHP version managment

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

PHP Switch

HomeBrew PHP

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