This tool help you to update your PHP installation for Windows.

Yes, for Mac Os X You can use Homebrew or other distribution. For Linux, many distribution include PHP. Especially for Debian, the DotDeb project provide newer version.

Chocolatey is another way for install PHP on your Windows server. But the location is not customizable.

This tree is not mandatory. All configuration is based on this tree.

drive (d:)
└── sites
    ├── log
    │   ├── php56
    │   └── php70
    ├── tmp
    ├── tmp_soap
    ├── tools
    │   ├── ansicon
    │   ├── apache24
    │   ├── git19
    │   ├── php56
    │   ├── php56_backup
    │   ├── php70
    │   ├── php_tool
    │   └── svn19
    └── www_root

Git 1.9 or newer installed and available without full qualified path. The prerequire for PHP installed. By example VC11 for PHP 5.6 or VC14 for PHP 7.

• Clone this repos into sites/tools/php_updater
• Open Ansicon and go to install folder.
• Execute make_tree.bat
• Download PHP 5.6.13+ for Windows or newer and unzip into sites/tools/php_updater/php folder.
• Configure this sites/tools/php_updater/php/php.ini the TimeZone

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = Europe/Paris

• Set the extension directory

; On windows:
extension_dir = "ext"

• Enable this extensions :
  • php_bz2
  • php_curl
  • php_fileinfo
  • php_gmp
  • php_intl
  • php_mbstring
  • php_openssl

[...]
; Windows Extensions
; Note that ODBC support is built in, so no dll is needed for it.
; Note that many DLL files are located in the extensions/ (PHP 4) ext/ (PHP 5)
; extension folders as well as the separate PECL DLL download (PHP 5).
; Be sure to appropriately set the extension_dir directive.
;
extension=php_bz2.dll
extension=php_curl.dll
extension=php_fileinfo.dll
;extension=php_gd2.dll
;extension=php_gettext.dll
extension=php_gmp.dll
extension=php_intl.dll
;extension=php_imap.dll
;extension=php_interbase.dll
;extension=php_ldap.dll
extension=php_mbstring.dll
;extension=php_exif.dll      ; Must be after mbstring as it depends on it
;extension=php_mysql.dll
;extension=php_mysqli.dll
;extension=php_oci8_12c.dll  ; Use with Oracle Database 12c Instant Client
extension=php_openssl.dll
[...]

Open ansicon and go to sites/tools/php_updater. Launch self_install.bat

This script download the composer.phar, install the vendor dependencies and run the configuration command.

Please enter the temporary folder : d:\sites\tmp
Please enter the PHP folder : d:\sites\tools\php56
Please enter the backup folder : d:\sites\tools\php56_backup
PHP branch : php56_nts
Configuration  end. Use 'config:show' command for check configuration.

For the php branch, read the file config/sources.yml

Open ansicon and go to sites/tools/php_updater. Launch update.bat

This script do :

• Update php_updater from GitHub.
• Update Composer
• Install the eventualy vendor update
• Install the lastest version of PHP branch set

Open ansicon and go to sites/tools/php_updater. Launch PhpUpdate.bat hor display help and all available command.

This version include :

• Display config
• Init config if not exists
• Update PHP version
• Display Current installed PHP version.

You want clean the configuration ? Remove the config/config.yml file.

Why install PHP in this tool ? A PHP script cannot access in write mode in php.exe if in running.

Who to maintain the integrated PHP version ? It is not necessary to maintain the integrated PHP up to date because it is not used in production by the server. Only the update tools used.

Your contribution can help the community. Fork this repository, make change, and create a new pull request.

You ar not developer and you want help. Make a new issue.

Thank in advance for your help.