How to install PHP 8.1 RC on your Mac
Good instructions provided by Nuno.
Read more [nunomaduro.com]
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Building the Imagick PHP extension from master original
At the time of writing there is no version of Imagick compatible with PHP 8. Fortuntely, the version on the master brach of the Imagick repo seems to work. Here's how you can use it. Clone the repo somewhere on disk Follow the steps mentioned here to create the extension. cd <directory of cloned…
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How To Install PHP 7.3
Want to upgrade to the PHP release? Here are some instructions written down by Colin O' Dell.
PHP 7.3 has been released, bringing some great new features to the language such as trailing commas in function calls, throwing errors when JSON parsing fails, array_key_first() / array_key_last() functions, and much more! Here's a brief guide on how to install PHP 7.3 on Linux, Windows, and OS X:
Installing PHP 7.2
PHP 7.2 was released last week. Here's a nice post highlighting the most important changes. If you want to know how to install PHP 7.2 on your system, Colin O' Dell has got you covered.
PHP 7.2 has been released, bringing some great new features and security enhancements to the language such as object type hints, saner count() behavior, and much more. Here's a brief guide on how to install PHP 7.2 on several different operating systems.
https://www.colinodell.com/blog/201711/installing-php-72
Using brew on MacOS it's very easy to upgrade from PHP 7.1 to PHP 7.2. Just run these:
brew update
brew upgrade
brew unlink php71
brew install php72
Please be aware that, at the moment of writing, there isn't a stable xdebug version that works for PHP 7.2. Keep an eye on the xdebug homepage to know when a stable version drops.
