Removing the hassle of changing PHP versions in the CLI on Windows.
This package has a much more niche use case than nvm does. When developing on Windows and using the integrated terminal, it's quite difficult to get those terminals to actually listen to PATH changes.
This utility changes that.
The installation process is a little convoluted. You need PHP already installed for it to work, which I admit isn't ideal. (v2 will fix this!)
composer global require hjbdev/pvm
Type pvm discover, then copy the path from pvm path and paste it into your path in the Windows Environment variables. Make sure the pvm path is above any versions of PHP in your environment variables, otherwise it will not work.
Alternatively, remove any other versions in your environment variables.
pvm discover <path?>
The path variable is optional, by default it will go to the Laragon bin folder (C:\laragon\bin\php). Provide a path to where all your PHP installations are.
pvm list
Will list out all the available PHP versions you have
pvm path
Will tell you what to put in your Path variable.
pvm use 7.1
Will switch your currently active PHP version to PHP 7.1
pvm clear
Clears all the detected php versions from pvm discover