From Pickles To Pie: Sweeten Your PHP Extension Installs

What started out as a sweet PEAR is now a sour PECL, and after many years of dealing with brined cucumbers it’s time to dish out some sweet new tools. Join us for a trip down memory lane as we take a look at the acquired taste of PHP extensions and their challenges from writing and publishing them to finally handling the installation procedure you are all too familiar with. The talk will give you an insight into an effort by the PHP foundation to bake a new PHP Installer for Extensions and how it will solve some of the challenges of dealing with PHP extensions.

Talk given at SymfonyCon Vienna 2024, on December 6th, 2024

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1. Andreas Braun Sweeten Your PHP Extension Installs From Pickles To Pie
3. PHP’s Original Sin PECL
4. PHP’s Original Sin PECL PEAR
5. Stig Bakken The intention behind PEAR is to provide a means for library code authors to organise their code in a defined way shared by other developers, and to give the PHP community a single source for such code.
7. Wait, what? PECL PEAR PECL
8. PHP Documentation PECL is a repository of PHP extensions that are made available via the PEAR packaging system.
13. { "require": { "php": ">=8.4", "ext-iconv": "*", "lib-iconv": ">=1.15” } }
18. Pronounced “PECL” Pickle
20. Using PECL
21. gh release create v1.2.3 --generate-notes
22. make package.xml # Update release notes vim package.xml pecl package package.xml pecl install testing-1.2.3.tgz gh release create v1.2.3 --generate-notes testing-1.2.3.tgz
27. pecl install xdebug
28. pecl/xdebug requires PHP (version >= 8.0.0, version <= 8.3.99), installed version is 7.2.34 No valid packages found install failed
30. Coming “Soon”
32. PHP Foundation Goal We support, advance, and develop the PHP Language
35. Rewriting the PECL extension distribution system to improve reliability and security.
36. Baking Pickle Pie
38. Hold The Pickles I’ll Have Pie, Please
39. Naming Is Hard Y’All PIE
42. { "name": "xdebug/xdebug", "type": "php-ext-zend", "license": "Xdebug-1.03", "description": "Xdebug is a debugging and productivity extension for PHP", "require": { "php": ">=8.0,<8.5" }, "php-ext": { "extension-name": "ext-xdebug", "priority": 90, "configure-options": [] } }
45. phpize ./configure make install
46. pie install <vendor>/<package>
49. php_testing-1.2.3-8.4-nts-vs17-x64.zip
50. php_testing-1.2.3-8.4-nts-vs17-x64.zip
51. php_testing-1.2.3—8.4-nts-vs17-x64.zip
52. php_testing-1.2.3-8.4-nts-vs17-x64.zip
53. php_testing-1.2.3-8.4-nts-vs17-x64.zip
54. php_testing-1.2.3-8.4-nts-vs17-x64.zip
55. php_testing-1.2.3-8.4-nts-vs17-x64.zip
57. pie install <vendor>/<package>
58. Try It
59. wget https://github.com/php/pie/releases/download/0.2.0/ pie.phar gh attestation verify pie.phar --repo php/pie php pie.phar install <vendor>/<package>
60. wget https://github.com/php/pie/releases/download/0.2.0/ pie.phar gh attestation verify pie.phar --repo php/pie php pie.phar install <vendor>/<package> 0.2.0
61. Windows Linux macOS x64 x86 ts nts 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4
64. Composer For Extensions?
67. !
68. Thank You!