On November 26, 2020, the PHP development team released PHP 8.0, PHP 8.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as:
- Union Types
- Named arguments
- Match expressions
- Attributes
- Constructor Property Promotion
- Nullsafe Operator
- Weak Maps
- Just In Time Compilation
- and more
For more details about all new features check Migrating from PHP 7.4.x to PHP 8.0.x
Goals
- Update to the latest version of PHP
- Get benefits from the latest language features
- Fix bugs from previous versions
- Customize the installation process
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that:
- You have some knowledge about GNU/Linux
- You have Debian GNU/Linux installed
- You are familiar with the command interpreter
- You are familiar with the compilation process
Update your OS
$ sudo bash -c 'apt update && apt upgrade'
Compile/Install
To compile/install PHP we will use the tool Butterfly Builder.
Download Butterfly Builder
You can install Butterfly Builder from GitLab or typing:
$ curl -# -LO https://gitlab.com/sr.libre/butterfly-builder/-/archive/debian10-php8.0/butterfly-builder-debian10-php8.0.tar.gz
If you get an error about missing curl you can install it by
$ sudo apt -y curl
Untar
$ tar xzvf butterfly-builder-debian10-php8.0.tar.gz
Change to the DIR butterfly-builder-debian10-php8.0
$ cd butterfly-builder-debian10-php8.0
The available PHP version while writing this tutorial is 8.0.0. Set the configuration values in the build.ini file according to your needs.
php_version=8.0.0
compression=tar.xz
php_mode=fpm
fpm_user=phpfpm
fpm_group=phpfpm
fpm_listen=9000
web_server=
install_prefix=/usr/
sysinit=systemd
sysinit_versioned=true
databases="mysql sqlite postgre"
php_env=dev
Download the digital signature for version 8.0.0 using the sigd tool, sigd uses the jq tool, install it by executing:
$ sudo apt -y install jq
Execute sigd
$ ./sigd
Compile/Install
./build
Once the installation process is finished, create a info script:
$ echo -e "<?php\nphpinfo();" > info.php
Start the native PHP server:
$ php -t . -S localhost:8080
Put in your browser the IP of the server where the installation was executed http://IP:8080/info.php.
Conclusions
Now that you’ve learned how to compile PHP you can get all the advantages (bugs fixing, performance improvements and latest features) without waiting for the distribution developers and maintainers add the last stable PHP version to its repository.
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