Top 8 PHP Installation Open-Source Projects

1. HomeBrew

   1 1,343 43,272 10.0 Ruby

   🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

   

   Project mention: Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-22

   > I wonder if you can get away with not doing parallel downloads, but just keep the sequential downloads going in the background while it is installing a package?

   I could be wrong, but I believe multiple people, including maintainers, have looked into exactly that :-)

   (I also need to correct myself: there is some work ongoing into concurrent downloads[1]. That work hasn't hit `brew install` yet, where I imagine the question of concurrent traffic volume will become more pressing.)

   [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/18278

2. InfluxDB

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3. awesome-php

   2 8 31,504 6.9

   A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.

   

   Project mention: 💡 The Untold History of GitHub Awesome-Lists 🤯 | dev.to | 2025-01-21

   The first awesome-list in history was awesome-php, launched January 25, 2012 by Jamie York (@ziadoz on GitHub).

4. PHP Brew

   3 2 5,465 3.8 Makefile

   Brew & manage PHP versions in pure PHP at HOME

   

5. PHPEnv

   4 6 1,679 7.4 Shell

   Simple PHP version management

   

6. PHP Build

   5 2 1,006 5.9 Shell

   Builds PHP so that multiple versions can be used side by side.

   

7. Brew PHP Switcher

   6 1 985 2.5 Shell

   Brew PHP switcher is a simple shell script to switch your apache and CLI quickly between major versions of PHP. If you support multiple products/projects that are built using either brand new or old legacy PHP functionality. For users of Homebrew (or brew for short) currently only.

   

8. PHP Env

   7 0 572 0.0 Shell

   Thin Wrapper around rbenv for PHP version managment (by CHH)

   

9. CodeRabbit

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10. PHP OSX

    8 1 325 0.0 PHP

    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

    

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