homebrew-php vs homebrew-php-ext

homebrew-php

:beer: Homebrew tap for PHP 5.6 to 8.4. PHP 8.4 is built nightly. (by shivammathur)

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homebrew-php-ext

🐘🌐 Core PHP extension formulae not suitable for Homebrew/core (by kabel)

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homebrew-php		homebrew-php-ext
	Project
5	Mentions	1
2,339	Stars	121
-	Growth	-
9.9	Activity	4.9
5 days ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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homebrew-php

Posts with mentions or reviews of homebrew-php. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.

Installing PHP 8.0 on MacOS: Overcoming Disabled Versions
1 project | dev.to | 6 Feb 2024
PHP 8.1 is here
6 projects | /r/PHP | 25 Nov 2021
PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2021
Does anybody use MacBook Air M1 to develop PHP
3 projects | /r/PHP | 14 Jun 2021

But if you want very new PHP (8.1) there is https://github.com/shivammathur/homebrew-php + https://github.com/shivammathur/homebrew-extensions
A minimal Drupal 9 local development environment
7 projects | dev.to | 28 Feb 2021

Homebrew PHP (Shivam Mathur) to switch local PHP version on Mac OS

homebrew-php-ext

Posts with mentions or reviews of homebrew-php-ext. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-14.

Does anybody use MacBook Air M1 to develop PHP
3 projects | /r/PHP | 14 Jun 2021

Personally I need a few obscure extensions, so I use brew's stock PHP + https://github.com/kabel/homebrew-php-ext/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing homebrew-php and homebrew-php-ext you can also consider the following projects:

DBngin - DB Engine

homebrew-extensions - :beers: Homebrew tap for PHP extensions

homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

linuxbrew-core - 💀Formerly the core formulae for the Homebrew package manager on Linux

php-docker - Docker Official Image packaging for PHP

homebrew-tap - 🍻 Aeden's Tap 🍻 - Personal Homebrew Formulae.

homebrew-portable-ruby - 🚗 Versions of Ruby that can be installed and run from anywhere on the filesystem.

PHP Mess Detector - PHPMD is a spin-off project of PHP Depend and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known Java tool PMD. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly frontend application for the raw metrics stream measured by PHP Depend.

homebrew-openjdk - AdoptOpenJDK HomeBrew Tap

drupal-project - :rocket: Composer template for Drupal projects. Quick installation via "composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project"