php-config(1)

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version 8.5.12 · 7 versions
, in arch rolling, fedora 44

🎀 php-config — hey bestie, let's talk about your PHP setup 🎀

So this is a page from the Scripting Language manual section — it's php-config(1), and it's literally your backstage pass to everything your PHP install is keeping secret. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

php-config — get the tea on your PHP configuration and compile options 🫖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

php-config [options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so, php-config is a simple shell script 🐚 and its whole job — its entire main character purpose — is handing you information about your installed PHP configuration. That's it. That's the gig. No cap. 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

Pick your fighter, bestie. Every one of these is a flag you pass and it spills a specific lil fact about your PHP:

  • --prefix — the directory prefix where PHP is installed, like for example /usr/local 📁
  • --includes — gives you the list of -I options with all the include files 🗂️
  • --ldflags — the LD Flags that PHP was compiled with 🔧
  • --libs — the extra libraries PHP was compiled with 📚
  • --man-dir — the directory prefix where the manpages are installed 📖
  • --extension-dir — the directory where extensions get searched by default 🔍
  • --include-dir — the directory prefix where header files are installed by default 📌
  • --lib-dir — the directory where libraries are installed by default 🧺
  • --lib-embed — the PHP embed library name 🫂
  • --php-binary — the full path to the php CLI or CGI binary 🛣️
  • --php-sapis — shows you all the SAPI modules available ✨
  • --configure-options — the configure options to recreate the configuration of your current PHP installation 🛠️
  • --ini-path — the directory from which PHP reads its INI configuration file (php.ini) 📄
  • --ini-dir — the directory from which PHP scans for additional INI configuration files 📂
  • --version — the PHP version 🏷️
  • --vernum — the PHP version, but as an integer 🔢

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

  • php(1) — yeah go read that one too, it's giving sibling energy 💕

✨ VERSION INFORMATION ✨

This manpage describes php, version 8.5.12. 👑

Copyright © The PHP Group 💜

This source file is subject to version 3.01 of the PHP license, that is bundled with this package in the file LICENSE, and is available through the world-wide-web at the following url:

https://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt

If you did not receive a copy of the PHP license and are unable to obtain it through the world-wide-web, please send a note to license@php.net so we can mail you a copy immediately. 📬

fr fr, that's the whole page. go check your config, bestie, you got this 💖✨

The PHP Group · 2024 · php-config(1) — mwah, thanks for reading, ily, bye 👋💅🦋

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