Seamlessly run and switch between different versions of PHP, with different installed extensions, thanks to the power of containers. Take the advantage of goodie commands like phpctl create to start a new project, phpctl repl to start a REPL, phpctl init to initialize a new configuration file and a lot more.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/opencodeco/phpctl/refs/heads/main/docs/install.sh)"

Try it out:

phpctl doctor
php --version
composer --version

Using Dev Containers? We have a pre-built image:

{
 "image": "opencodeco/phpctl:php83-devcontainer"
}

In fact, we use it ourselves to develop phpctl itself: devcontainer.json.

• Installation guide
• How to use
• Available commands
• The .phpctlrc file
• The phpctl.ini file
• Available extensions
• Why it exists?

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