TechEmpower.FrameworkBenchmarks/frameworks/PHP

Tricks to writing PHP-based Frameworks

Many servers use the php, php-fpm, or other binaries. If your server launches with sudo (e.g. sudo php-fpm) then you should be aware that using sudo resets the $PATH environment variable, and your specific binary may not be the one being used. The solution is to always use sudo <full-path-to-my-binary>. For example, cakephp's bash_profile.sh sets the variable $PHP_FPM to be the full path to the php-fpm binary that cakephp wants, and then uses sudo $PHP_FPM to ensure that the php-fpm binary used by sudo is the exact binary desired.

Dependency Management

Many PHP apps use https://getcomposer.org/ for dependency management. To support this, use fw_depends php composer (note that order is important, composer requires php and therefore should be listed after PHP), and then add $IROOT/php-composer to the PATH in your bash_profile.sh. For example:

export COMPOSER_HOME=${IROOT}/php-composer
export PATH="$COMPOSER_HOME:$PATH"