🚀 New Features

• PHP INI Management

  • Added commands to handle PHP .ini settings with status display, filtering, and enable/disable options.
  • Added missing information to ini help section.
  • Display PHP settings in pvm info with search functionality.
  • Added option to disable setting when using set (enable is default).

• Extension Management

  • Added command to list available extensions.
  • Added ability to install PHP extensions directly from source.
  • Added support for installing Xdebug and other Zend extensions.
  • Enhanced handling of extension installation fallbacks.
  • Added searching for PHP extensions and versions.
  • Added xdebug to extension source list.
  • Added alpha/beta xdebug versions to the fetched list.

• Caching & Testing

  • Introduced caching helpers and unified usage across commands.
  • Increased cache expiration to one week.
  • Added test coverage for new ini and extension commands.
  • Added color-coded output per test file.
  • Added more robust mock handling in tests.

• Commands & Info

  • Added help command with action list.
  • Added filtering and searching options to info command.
  • Added more detailed examples to command usage and README.

🧩 Improvements

• Trimmed responses for cleaner output.
• Unified count checks and refactored use command.
• Improved user messages when installing versions.
• Fixed typos and enhanced readability across multiple commands.
• Improved validation and error handling (use -1 instead of 1 as error code).
• Fixed multiple small edge cases in .ini and extension management.

🧰 Maintenance

• Updated README with clearer examples and explanations.
• Fixed function naming and improved message clarity in Opcache configuration.
• Fixed test cases for improved reliability.

🔢 Summary

• New INI commands for configuration management
• Extension installation improvements, including Xdebug
• Search support for PHP versions and extensions
• Better caching, colorful test output, and refined documentation

Credits

Thank you to the following contributors: @faissaloux

What's Changed

✨ New Features

• Display help for specific commands and improved help output.
• Added support for different variations of php.ini files.

🛠 Fixes & Improvements

• Prevent enabling/disabling the same extension twice.
• Better handling of legacy extension naming (e.g., php_xdebug.dll).
• Improved PowerShell compatibility (pwsh fallback to powershell).
• Cleaner logging and testing output.

🧪 Testing & CI

• Added coverage reporting options in CI.
• Added previous OS version checks for tests.

✨ New Features

• Added log command with pagination support
• Added info command to display environment and configuration details

🔧 Improvements

• Optimized log formatting and readability
• Tests now show detailed summaries and clearer results
• Automatically enable opcache on new PHP versions
• Prompt to install xdebug (or extensions) if missing in php.ini

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed backup issues and handling of symbolic links
• Better handling of edge cases in config management
• Minor bug fixes (typos, return codes, exception handling, etc.)

🛠 Maintenance

• Added GitHub Actions CI workflow for automated testing
• Added contributing guidelines & funding metadata

Credits

Thank you to the following contributors: @faissaloux

✨ New & Improved

• Symbolic link switching — PHP version switching now uses symbolic links instead of modifying the environment path.
• Path optimization — Always optimizes system path during setup.

🛠️ Removals & Cleanups

• Removed set command.
• Removed custom installation directory option.
• Removed Chocolatey module importing.

🧪 Testing & Reliability

• Added comprehensive tests for pvm.ps1 and router.ps1.
• Improved and adapted existing tests to new logic.

New Features & Enhancements

• Added auto command to automatically select PHP version from .php-version or composer.json.
• Added suggestions for installing other versions from the same PHP family if a requested version is unavailable.
• Introduced better messaging when multiple versions match a request.

Testing & Reliability

• Added dedicated tests for all major commands (install, setup, set, ini, helpers, list, use, uninstall, current, common).
• Improved test tooling.

Fixes & Maintenance

• Refactored environment variable handling and admin check logic.
• Fixed typos, improved descriptions in help commands.
• Cleaned alert messages and standardized output formatting.

Overall, v1.1 makes PVM more stable, developer-friendly, and easier to maintain.

Credits

Thank you to the following contributors: @faissaloux

🚀 PHP Version Manager for Windows - v1.0

A CLI tool to easily manage multiple PHP versions, php.ini settings, and extensions directly from Windows PowerShell.

✨ Features

• View, install, uninstall, and switch between PHP versions.
• Auto-detect PHP version from .php-version or composer.json.
• Manage php.ini settings and extensions (enable, disable, set, get, restore).
• Supports Xdebug and OPcache installation flags.
• Optional custom installation directory.
• Built-in testing via Pester.