Tip
Looking for the 0.x (composer) version? See the v0 branch.
Removing the hassle of changing PHP versions in the CLI on Windows.
This package has a much more niche use case than nvm does. When developing on Windows and using the integrated terminal, it's quite difficult to get those terminals to actually listen to PATH changes.
This utility changes that.
If you want to install pvm without configuring any settings and setting PATH variables, then you can install pvm via Chocolatey.
Ensure that Chocolatey is installed on your system.
You can easily install PVM using Chocolatey. Run the following command in a command prompt or PowerShell with administrative rights:
choco install php-pvmDownload the latest pvm version from the releases page (1.0-alpha-1, it's currently a pre-release).
Create the folder %UserProfile%\.pvm\bin (e.g. C:\Users\Harry\.pvm\bin) and drop the pvm exe in there. Add the folder to your PATH.
pvm list
Will list out all the available PHP versions you have installed
pvm path
Will tell you what to put in your Path variable.
pvm use 8.2.9
Note
Versions must have major.minor specified in the use command. If a .patch version is omitted, newest available patch version is chosen.
Will switch your currently active PHP version to PHP 8.2.9
pvm install 8.2
Note
The install command will automatically determine the newest minor/patch versions if they are not specified
Will install PHP 8.2 at the latest patch.
pvm now installs also composer with each php version installed.
It will install Composer latest stable release for PHP >= 7.2 and Composer latest 2.2.x LTS for PHP < 7.2.
You'll be able to invoke composer from terminal as it is intended:
composer --versionTo compile this project use:
GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build -o pvm.exe