1. Install Pecl On Mac
2. Install Pecl On Mac Virtualbox
3. Install Pecl On Mac Shortcut

The following instructions install PEAR and PECL on Mac OS X under /usr/local/. PECL is bundled with PEAR. So this is as simple as installing PEAR on Mac OS X.

PEAR is PHP's Package Repository and makes it easy to download and install PHP tools like PHPUnit and XDebug. I specifically recommend these two for every PHP developer.

Download PEAR

Configure and Install PEAR

Install PHP and PECL on Ubuntu/Debian: For PHP5: $ sudo apt-get install php5 php5-dev php-pear phpunit For PHP7. Install PHP and PECL on Mac. Install Pecl/Pear on Mac OSX August 5, 2020 August 5, 2020 by Johnnyparky Use curl as shown below to download the go-pear.phar file or just download the go-pear.phar file via your browser.

You should now be at a prompt to configure PEAR.

1. Type 1 and press return.

2. Enter:

3. Type 4 and press return.

4. Enter:

5. Press return

Verify PEAR

You should be able to type:

Eventually, if you use any extensions or applications from PEAR, you may need to update PHP's include path.

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This guide gets you started with gRPC in PHP with a simpleworking example.

Prerequisites

• php 5.5 or above, 7.0 or above
• pecl
• composer
• phpunit (optional)

Install PHP and PECL on Ubuntu/Debian:

For PHP5:

For PHP7:

or

Install PHP and PECL on CentOS/RHEL 7:

Install PHP and PECL on Mac:

Install Composer (Linux or Mac):

Install PHPUnit (Linux or Mac):

Install the gRPC PHP extension

There are two ways to install gRPC PHP extension.

• pecl
• build from source

Using PECL

or specific version

Note: for users on CentOS/RHEL 6, unfortunately this step won’t work. Please follow the instructions below to compile the PECL extension from source.

Install on Windows

You can download the pre-compiled gRPC extension from the PECLwebsite

Build from Source with gRPC C core library

Clone this repository

Build and install the gRPC C core library

Build and install gRPC PHP extension

Compile the gRPC PHP extension

This will compile and install the gRPC PHP extension into the standard PHP extension directory. You should be able to run the unit tests, with the PHP extension installed.

Update php.ini

After installing the gRPC extension, make sure you add this line to your php.ini file, (e.g. /etc/php5/cli/php.ini, /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini, or /usr/local/etc/php/5.6/php.ini), depending on where your PHP installation is.

Add the gRPC PHP library as a Composer dependency

You need to add this to your project’s composer.json file.

To run tests with generated stub code from .proto files, you will also need the composer and protoc binaries. You can find out how to get these below.

Install other prerequisites for both Mac OS X and Linux

• protoc: protobuf compiler
• protobuf.so: protobuf runtime library
• grpc_php_plugin: Generates PHP gRPC service interface out of Protobuf IDL

Install Protobuf compiler

If you don’t have it already, you need to install the protobuf compilerprotoc, version 3.4.0+ (the newer the better) for the current gRPC version.If you installed already, make sure the protobuf version is compatible with the grpc version you installed. If you build grpc.so from source, you can checkthe version of grpc inside package.xml file.

The compatibility between the grpc and protobuf version is listed as table below:

If protoc hasn’t been installed, you can download the protoc binaries fromthe protocol buffers GitHub repository.Then unzip this file and Update the environment variable PATH to include the path to the protoc binary file./protobuf/releases).Then unzip this file and Update the environment variable PATH to include the path to the protoc binary file.

If you really must compile protoc from source, you can run the followingcommands, but this is risky because there is no easy way to uninstall /upgrade to a newer release.

Protobuf Runtime library

There are two protobuf runtime libraries to choose from. They are identicalin terms of APIs offered. The C implementation provides better performance, while the native implementation is easier to install. Make sure the installed protobuf version works with grpc version.

1. C implementation (for better performance)

or specific version

After protobuf extension is installed, Update php.ini by adding this line to your php.ini file, (e.g. /etc/php5/cli/php.ini, /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini, or /usr/local/etc/php/5.6/php.ini), depending on where your PHP installation is.

2. PHP implementation (for easier installation)

Add this to your composer.json file:

PHP Protoc Plugin

You need the gRPC PHP protoc plugin to generate the client stub classes.It can generate server and client code from .proto service definitions.

It should already been compiled when you run make from the root directoryof this repo. The plugin can be found in the bins/opt directory. We areplanning to provide a better way to download and install the pluginin the future.

You can also just build the gRPC PHP protoc plugin by running:

Plugin may use the new feature of the new protobuf version, thus please alsomake sure that the protobuf version installed is compatible with the grpc version you build this plugin.

Download the example

You’ll need a local copy of the example code to work through this quickstart.Download the example code from our GitHub repository (the following commandclones the entire repository, but you just need the examples for this quickstartand other tutorials):

Note that currently you can only create clients in PHP for gRPC services -you can find out how to create gRPC servers in our other tutorials,e.g. Node.js.

Run a gRPC application

From the examples/node directory:

1. Run the server

In another terminal, from the examples/php directory:

1. Run the client

Congratulations! You’ve just run a client-server application with gRPC.

Update a gRPC service

Now let’s look at how to update the application with an extra method on theserver for the client to call. Our gRPC service is defined using protocolbuffers; you can find out lots more about how to define a service in a .protofile in gRPC Basics: PHP. For now all you need to know is that both theserver and the client “stub” have a SayHello RPC method that takes aHelloRequest parameter from the client and returns a HelloResponse fromthe server, and that this method is defined like this:

Let’s update this so that the Greeter service has two methods. Editexamples/protos/helloworld.proto and update it with a new SayHelloAgainmethod, with the same request and response types:

(Don’t forget to save the file!)

Generate gRPC code

Next we need to update the gRPC code used by our application to use the newservice definition. From the grpc root directory:

or running the helper script under the grpc/example/php directory if you buildgrpc-php-plugin by source:

This regenerates the protobuf files, which contain our generated client classes,as well as classes for populating, serializing, and retrieving our request andresponse types.

Update and run the application

We now have new generated client code, but we still need to implement and callthe new method in the human-written parts of our example application.

Update the server

In the same directory, open greeter_server.js. Implement the new method likethis:

Update the client

In the same directory, open greeter_client.php. Call the new method like this:

Run!

Install Pecl On Mac

Just like we did before, from the examples/node/dynamic_codegen directory:

1. Run the server

In another terminal, from the examples/php directory:

1. Run the client

Install Pecl On Mac Virtualbox

What’s next

Install Pecl On Mac Shortcut

• Read a full explanation of how gRPC works in What is gRPC?and gRPC Concepts
• Work through a more detailed tutorial in gRPC Basics: PHP
• Explore the gRPC PHP core API in its referencedocumentation