setup-php VS PHP CPP

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.

this is a good base https://github.com/shivammathur/setup-php

Setup PHP (GitHub Action)

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

Look at things like how Hydration in PHP can done. Look also at PDO directly and how you can choose to get an array, or object back from the database directly from the driver (https://www.php.net/manual/en/pdostatement.fetchall.php ). Look at how to create a underlaying C++ library that can talk directly to the hardware (http://www.php-cpp.com/ ). Use PHP as a first class Templating language as this is what it was designed to do (https://www.ntchosting.com/encyclopedia/scripting-and-programming/php/php-in/). Pro tip, you don't have to template HTML, PHP can "template" anything that returns a stream.

Small description about repository: phptdlib is a PHP extension for the Telegram Database library, which allows to create Telegram clients. This is a CMake based C++ project with dependencies (tdlib/td, CopernicaMarketingSoftware/PHP-CPP and nlohmann/json), which produces a PHP extension.