setup-php vs php-src

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setup-php		php-src
	Project
31	Mentions	3
2,790	Stars	71
-	Growth	-
8.8	Activity	5.0
3 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
TypeScript	Language	C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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.

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

php-src

Posts with mentions or reviews of php-src. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-12.

(Shared Hosting) Do you still offer EOL/unsupported PHP versions to your clients?
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 22 Jul 2021

Microsoft of all people are still doing security back ports for older versions of php. At least for 5.6 and some versions of 7.x. microsoft/php-src
Today marks the first time my product does not support PHP versions that reached EOL
8 projects | /r/PHP | 12 Apr 2021

Microsoft is also maintaining 5.6, and making it available for everyone, here: https://github.com/microsoft/php-src
A storm in a glass of water - thoughts on updating to PHP 8
1 project | /r/PHP | 21 Jan 2021

See also : https://github.com/microsoft/php-src

What are some alternatives?

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

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

square-one - Modern Tribe's legacy WordPress framework for the classic editor.

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

polyfill - PHP polyfills

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

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

rector-prefixed - [READ-ONLY] Prefixed version of Rector

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

Box

PHP Noise - A starter-kit for your PHP project.

phptdlib - PHP Extension for tdlib/td written with PHP-CPP