🥧 PIE (PHP Installer for Extensions)

You will need PHP 8.1 or newer to run PIE, but PIE can install an extension to any installed PHP version.

If you are an extension maintainer wanting to add PIE support to your extension, please read extension-maintainers.

Installing PIE

Manual installation

• Download pie.phar either:
  • latest stable release
  • latest unstable nightly
• Validate the signature in pie.phar.asc
• You may then invoke PIE with php pie.phar <command>

Further installation details can be found in the usage docs. This documentation assumes you have moved pie.phar into your $PATH, e.g. /usr/local/bin/pie on non-Windows systems.

Extensions that support PIE

A list of extensions that support PIE can be found on https://packagist.org/extensions.

Installing an extension using PIE

You can install an extension using the install command. For example, to install the example_pie_extension extension, you would run:

$ pie install example/example-pie-extension
This command may need elevated privileges, and may prompt you for your password.
You are running PHP 8.3.10
Target PHP installation: 8.3.10 nts, on Linux/OSX/etc x86_64 (from /usr/bin/php8.3)
Found package: example/example-pie-extension:1.0.1 which provides ext-example_pie_extension
phpize complete.
Configure complete.
Build complete: /tmp/pie_downloader_66e0b1de73cdb6.04069773/example-example-pie-extension-769f906/modules/example_pie_extension.so
Install complete: /usr/lib/php/20230831/example_pie_extension.so
You must now add "extension=example_pie_extension" to your php.ini
$

More documentation...

The full documentation for PIE can be found in usage docs.