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brew install php v8.5.7 PHP-3.01 AND Zend-2.0 AND BSL-1.0 AND MIT AND Apache-1.0 AND Apache-2.0 AND bcrypt-Solar-Designer AND BSD-2-Clause-Darwin AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4-Clause-UC AND ISC AND LGPL-2.1-only AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND OLDAP-2.8 AND TCL AND Zlib

General-purpose scripting language (v8.5.7) for web development, CLIs, and server-side applications.

Why you might care

PHP remains the dominant server-side web language, powering Laravel, Symfony, and WordPress ecosystems. Use this for running PHP applications locally, development servers, or as a shebang interpreter for scripts. Homebrew's formula includes standard extensions (curl, pdo, gd, openssl) and is more customizable than system PHP.

Categories

language-runtime interpreter web-server

Alternatives

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Runtime dependencies

apr apr-util argon2 autoconf curl freetds gd gmp icu4c@78 libpq libsodium libzip net-snmp oniguruma openldap openssl@3 pcre2 sqlite tidy-html5 unixodbc gettext

Build dependencies

httpd pkgconf

Links

Caveats

To enable PHP in Apache add the following to httpd.conf and restart Apache:
    LoadModule php_module $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/php/lib/httpd/modules/libphp.so

    <FilesMatch \.php$>
        SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
    </FilesMatch>

Finally, check DirectoryIndex includes index.php
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

The php.ini and php-fpm.ini file can be found in:
    $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/php/8.5/

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