Question

perlbrew is a tool to manage multiple installations of Perl on your system, making it easy to, say, quickly run a suite of test scripts against many different versions of Perl.

Is there anything like that for PHP? For now when I want to change the version of PHP that my system uses, I’ll go into the build directory for my desired version and run make install.

Answer 1

Here’s one: http://www.navicopa.com – it allows you to switch between different versions of php in one click (just install them into different directories)

And here’s a free one: https://github.com/c9s/phpbrew

Also – you might like this solution as an alternative, if you don’t want to use side software: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5299385/1337343

Also missed that you use linux environment, so you would really like this: https://github.com/tobiasgies/php-switch

Install all php versions you need and switch between them using this tiny bash script.