An experimental process manager that uses Rust's hyper library to act as a frontend for PHP.
The standard way to run PHP is to use nginx + php_fpm. Not only is this a pain to setup, but FastCGI is not very fast.
Embed PHP into Rust so that hyper can accept the HTTP request, pass that information off to a PHP script and then have hyper return the HTTP response.
This package depends on PHP. The default location for includes is in /usr/include/php. You can set an environment variable PHP_INCLUDE_DIR to override this. The default location for libs is in /usr/lib. You can set an environment variable PHP_LIB_DIR to override this. The specific library required is libphp7.so. This is included if you add embed support to your PHP installation. Some package managers provide a specific package for this. For example, Ubunty Xenial calls it libphp7.0-embed.
The code uses bindgen to dynamically build bindings for PHP 7. Using cargo build should give you a working binary.
Depending on the location of libphp7.so you may need to provide LD_LIBRARY_PATH. The first argument to the program is the name of the PHP file to execute. Example: PHP_LIB_DIR="/path/to/lib" PHP_INCLUDE_DIR="/path/to/include" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/path/to/lib" cargo run -- tests/index.php.
I thought of this idea while working on weldr and thinking about how weldr would be used at my day job (which uses PHP).
See php_fpm.
A big thanks to Sara Goleman and her book Extending and Embedding PHP. Also thanks to the people that created bindgen.
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.