feat: embed PHP thanks to FrankenPHP #216
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Does it make sense to have here a go build tag? Frankenphp uses a lot of cgo which would break the release ci pipeline as it's not possible to cross compile anymore 🤔
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We could do that, but first I'll try to have to build a release pipeline supporting all current targets (they are supported by PHP, and we can use Docker to cross-compile).
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That's a great initiative, but would it support the |
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@Kocal not yet. FrankenPHP is only compatible with PHP 8.2+. |
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How much will that increase the size of the Symfony binary? Why does one tool have to solve all issues? |
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As we still need to have a local PHP setup for the CLI (a Symfony project requires a PHP CLI, at least to run composer), is there any benefit for that ? This only saves installing the |
I would say about 100mb (rough estimate)
I agree. Also we lose the multi version support and we don't expose the configurability of Franken so no big win here I think. |
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Maybe we can do something by working wi Go plugins to have this optional? |
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@stof, FrankenPHP now natively supports CLI scripts too. The Caddy plugin already has this feature, this should be easy to add to Symfony CLI. |
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Also, FrankenPHP supports libphp.so in addition to static builds, so it should be possible to distribute (or , better, download on demand) different PHP versions, for instance from the PHP Builder project (also used by setup-php), which provides dynamic libphp builds compatible with FrankenPHP. This approach would also have the benefit of not increasing much the binary size. |
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Hi, |
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I'm not sure this would add much value doing it this way (because if I picture it correctly most features would not make sense in a Franken context or be a duplicate of Franken's). |
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Thanks to FrankenPHP, it's possible to embed PHP directly in the Symfony Local Web Server.
That's what this patch does!
symfony server:start --frankenphpBasically, that means that you don't need a local installation of PHP anymore.
The code is working, but the build chain isn't ready. We'll have to build
libphpin the CI and statically link the produced binary against it.Support for other PHP SAPI is still included and FrankenPHP is currently opt-in.
Current limitations are:
Needs symfony-cli/phpstore#3