81744d6cf7
* random: Improve the output quality of RANDOM_SEED()
Previously 4 consecutive calls to `RANDOM_SEED()` each for 4 different CLI
requests resulted in:
$ sapi/cli/php test.php
2c13e9fde9caa
2c13e9fd1d6b0
2c13e9fd4de34
2c13e9fd1610e
$ sapi/cli/php test.php
2c1436764fe07
2c14367621770
2c143676c0bf6
2c143676e02f5
$ sapi/cli/php test.php
2c144995a0626
2c14499590fe2
2c144995c65db
2c14499536833
$ sapi/cli/php test.php
2c145cb30860b
2c145cb3ec027
2c145cb33b4ca
2c145cb38ff63
Now they result in:
$ sapi/cli/php test.php
6796973ace1b5f3d
1913daf5c158cb4b
255dbf24237bc8c9
7c3ba22e60f35196
$ sapi/cli/php test.php
afb7cc9ba9819cd2
3e01a71b91ad020c
6b718364d3ef108
bdcd17beeb4b31d2
$ sapi/cli/php test.php
53d36eb9b83f8788
4381c85e816187aa
2e9b32ee9898e71e
31d15c946842bddb
$ sapi/cli/php test.php
2037a3cba88114b4
ba0b0d93a9bb43aa
e13d82d2421269e2
191de474f3292240
* tree-wide: Replace GENERATE_SEED() by php_random_generate_fallback_seed()
* random: Fix NTS build
* random: Fix Windows build
The PHP Interpreter
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world. PHP is distributed under the PHP License v3.01.
Documentation
The PHP manual is available at php.net/docs.
Installation
Prebuilt packages and binaries
Prebuilt packages and binaries can be used to get up and running fast with PHP.
For Windows, the PHP binaries can be obtained from
windows.php.net. After extracting the archive the
*.exe files are ready to use.
For other systems, see the installation chapter.
Building PHP source code
For Windows, see Build your own PHP on Windows.
For a minimal PHP build from Git, you will need autoconf, bison, and re2c. For a default build, you will additionally need libxml2 and libsqlite3.
On Ubuntu, you can install these using:
sudo apt install -y pkg-config build-essential autoconf bison re2c \
libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev
On Fedora, you can install these using:
sudo dnf install re2c bison autoconf make libtool ccache libxml2-devel sqlite-devel
Generate configure:
./buildconf
Configure your build. --enable-debug is recommended for development, see
./configure --help for a full list of options.
# For development
./configure --enable-debug
# For production
./configure
Build PHP. To speed up the build, specify the maximum number of jobs using -j:
make -j4
The number of jobs should usually match the number of available cores, which
can be determined using nproc.
Testing PHP source code
PHP ships with an extensive test suite, the command make test is used after
successful compilation of the sources to run this test suite.
It is possible to run tests using multiple cores by setting -jN in
TEST_PHP_ARGS:
make TEST_PHP_ARGS=-j4 test
Shall run make test with a maximum of 4 concurrent jobs: Generally the maximum
number of jobs should not exceed the number of cores available.
The qa.php.net site provides more detailed info about testing and quality assurance.
Installing PHP built from source
After a successful build (and test), PHP may be installed with:
make install
Depending on your permissions and prefix, make install may need super user
permissions.
PHP extensions
Extensions provide additional functionality on top of PHP. PHP consists of many essential bundled extensions. Additional extensions can be found in the PHP Extension Community Library - PECL.
Contributing
The PHP source code is located in the Git repository at github.com/php/php-src. Contributions are most welcome by forking the repository and sending a pull request.
Discussions are done on GitHub, but depending on the topic can also be relayed to the official PHP developer mailing list internals@lists.php.net.
New features require an RFC and must be accepted by the developers. See Request for comments - RFC and Voting on PHP features for more information on the process.
Bug fixes don't require an RFC. If the bug has a GitHub issue, reference it in
the commit message using GH-NNNNNN. Use #NNNNNN for tickets in the old
bugs.php.net bug tracker.
Fix GH-7815: php_uname doesn't recognise latest Windows versions
Fix #55371: get_magic_quotes_gpc() throws deprecation warning
See Git workflow for details on how pull requests are merged.
Guidelines for contributors
See further documents in the repository for more information on how to contribute:
- Contributing to PHP
- PHP coding standards
- Internal documentation
- Mailing list rules
- PHP release process
Credits
For the list of people who've put work into PHP, please see the PHP credits page.