PHP Runtime for Vercel

Enjoyable & powerful 🐘 PHP Runtime (php.vercel.app) for Vercel platform.

🏋️‍♀️ It works with these frameworks and tools. Discover more at examples.

Made with ❤️ by @f3l1x (f3l1x.io) • 🐦 @xf3l1x

😎 Getting Started

Let's picture you want to deploy your awesome microproject written in PHP and you don't know where. You have found Vercel it's awesome, but for static sites. Not anymore! I would like to introduce you your new best friend vercel-php, PHP runtime for Vercel platform.

Most simple example project is this one, using following project structure.

project
├── api
│   └── index.php
└── vercel.json

First file api/index.php is entrypoint of our application. It should be placed in api folder, it's very standard location for Vercel.

<?php
phpinfo();

Second file vercel.json is pure gold here. Setup your project with configuration like this and voila. That's all.

{
  "functions": {
    "api/*.php": {
      "runtime": "[email protected]"
    }
  }
}

Last thing you have to do is call vercel. If you are more interested take a look at features and usage.

# Install it globally
npm i -g vercel

# Log in
vercel login

# Let's fly
vercel

Are you ready to deploy your first PHP project to Vercel? Click & Go!

🤗 Features

• Architecture: PHP development server (🚀 fast enough)
• PHP version: 8.0.0
• Extensions: apcu, bcmath, brotli, bz2, calendar, Core, ctype, curl, date, dom, ds, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gettext, hash, iconv, igbinary, imap, intl, json, libxml, lua, mbstring, mongodb, msgpack, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcntl, pcre, PDO, pdo_mysql, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, phalcon, Phar, protobuf, psr, readline, redis, Reflection, runkit7, session, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, sodium, SPL, sqlite3, standard, swoole, timecop, tokenizer, uuid, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, Zend OPcache, zlib
• Speed: cold ~250ms / warm ~5ms
• Memory: ~90mb
• Frameworks: Nette, Symfony, Lumen, Slim, Phalcon

List of all installable extensions is on this page https://blog.remirepo.net/pages/PECL-extensions-RPM-status.

⚙️ Usage

Before you can start using this runtime, you should learn about Vercel and how runtimes works. Take a look at blogpost about Serverless Functions.

You should define functions property in vercel.json and list PHP files directly or using wildcard (*). If you need to route everything to index, use routes property.

{
  "functions": {
    "api/*.php": {
      "runtime": "[email protected]"
    }
  },
  "routes": [
    { "src": "/(.*)",  "dest": "/api/index.php" }
  ]
}

Do you have more questions (❓)? Let's move to FAQ.

👨‍💻 vercel dev

For running vercel dev properly, you need to have PHP installed on your computer, learn more. But it's PHP and as you know PHP has built-in development server. It works out of box.

php -S localhost:8000 api/index.php

👀 Demo

• official - https://php.vercel.app/
• phpinfo - https://phpshow.vercel.app/
• extensions - https://phpshow.vercel.app/ext/
• ini - https://phpshow.vercel.app/ini/
• JSON API - https://phpshow.vercel.app/api/users.php
• test - https://phpshow.vercel.app/test.php

🎯Examples

• PHP - fast & simple
• Composer - install dependencies
• Framework - Laravel
• Framework - Lumen
• Framework - Nette
• Framework - Phalcon
• Framework - Slim
• Framework - Symfony - Microservice

Browse more examples. 👀

📜 Resources

• 2019/10/23 - Code Examples
• 2019/10/19 - ZEIT - Deploy Serverless Microservices Right Now
• 2019/08/23 - Code Examples
• 2019/07/07 - Bleeding Edge PHP on ZEIT Now
• 2019/06/06 - Code Examples
• 2019/06/05 - ZEIT - Deploy Serverless Microservices Right Now (VIDEO)

🚧 Roadmap

Next

Done

• next-gen PHP runtime
• Composer
  • config.composer: true
  • composer.json detection
• zero config
• customize php.ini
• vercel dev
• typescript codebase
• github workflows (CI)
• PHP 7.4
• composer.json scripts
• PHP 8.0

Help wanted

• create examples using vercel-php

⁉️ FAQ

project
├── api
│   ├── index.php
│   ├── users.php
│   └── books.php
└── vercel.json

{
  "functions": {
    "api/*.php": {
      "runtime": "[email protected]"
    },

    // Can be list also directly

    "api/index.php": {
      "runtime": "[email protected]"
    },
    "api/users.php": {
      "runtime": "[email protected]"
    },
    "api/books.php": {
      "runtime": "[email protected]"
    }
  }
}

{
  "functions": {
    "api/index.php": {
      "runtime": "[email protected]"
    }
  },
  "routes": [
    { "src": "/(.*)",  "dest": "/api/index.php" }
  ]
}

{
  "functions": {
    "api/*.php": {
      "runtime": "[email protected]",
      "memory": 3008,
      "maxDuration": 60
    }
  }
}

project
├── api
│   └── index.php
├── composer.json
└── vercel.json

{
  "functions": {
    "api/*.php": {
      "runtime": "[email protected]"
    }
  }
}

{
  "require": {
    "php": "^7.4",
    "tracy/tracy": "^2.0"
  }
}

project
├── api
│   ├── index.php
│   └── php.ini
└── vercel.json

{
  "functions": {
    "api/*.php": {
      "runtime": "[email protected]"
    }
  }
}

# Disable some functions
disable_functions = "exec, system"

# Update memory limit
memory_limit=1024M

{
  "functions": {
  "api/**/*.php": {
    "runtime": "[email protected]",
    "excludeFiles": "{foo/**,bar/config/*.yaml}",
  }
}

{
  "require": { ... },
  "require-dev": { ... },
  "scripts": {
    "vercel": [
      "@php -v",
      "npm -v"
    ]
  }
}

php -S localhost:8000 api/index.php

👨🏻‍💻CHANGELOG

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🧙Contribution

1. Clone this repository.
   • git clone [email protected]:juicyfx/vercel-php.git
2. Install NPM dependencies
   • make install
3. Make your changes
4. Run TypeScript compiler
   • make build
5. Run tests
   • make test
6. Create a PR

📝 License

Copyright © 2019 f3l1x. This project is MIT licensed.