php Cookbook

It installs and configures PHP and the PEAR package management system. Also includes resources for managing PEAR (and PECL) packages, PECL channels, and PHP-FPM pools.

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Requirements

Platforms

Ubuntu 18.04 / 20.04 / 22.04
Debian 10 / 11
CentOS 7+ (incl. Alma & Rocky)

Chef

Chef 15.3+

Attributes

node['php']['install_method'] = method to install php with, default package.
node['php']['directives'] = Hash of directives and values to append to php.ini, default {}.
node['php']['pear_setup'] = Boolean value to determine whether to set up pear repositories. Default: true
node['php']['pear_channels'] = List of external pear channels to add if node['php']['pear_setup'] is true. Default: ['pear.php.net', 'pecl.php.net']

The file also contains the following attribute types:

platform specific locations and settings.
source installation settings

Resources

This cookbook includes resources for managing:

Recipes

`php::default`

Include the default recipe in a run list, to get php. By default php is installed from packages but this can be changed by using the install_method attribute.

`php::package`

This recipe installs PHP from packages.

`php::community_package`

This recipe installs PHP from one of two available community package repositories, depending on platform family. This provides the ability to install PHP versions that are no provided by the official distro repositories.

Set node['php']['install_method'] = 'community_package' to use these repositories.

Please see test/cookbooks/test/recipes/community.rb for an example of how to use attributes to install the desired version of PHP & its supporting packages, and please refer to the documentation on these community repositories:

`php::source`

This recipe installs PHP from source.

Usage

Simply include the php recipe where ever you would like php installed. To install from source override the node['php']['install_method'] attribute within a role or wrapper cookbook:

Role example

name 'php'
description 'Install php from source'
override_attributes(
  'php' => {
    'install_method' => 'source',
  }
)
run_list(
  'recipe[php]'
)