Support .php-version

[CHH]

Support for using .phpenv-version files for setting project specific versions.

[wilmoore]

May I suggest something generic like .phpversion so other similar projects can have parity instead of each project having its own vanity file? I think this would be good for the entire community regardless of which tool they choose.

[CHH]

Yep, that's a good one.

Do other PHP environment managers already support this?

[wilmoore]

I actually have not seen this in any other project so I think whatever you come up with, I'll look into incorporating into php-version as well. This is a good idea.

[jacobbednarz]

Sorry to revive this but I just opened a topic on phpbrew/phpbrew#481 and would like to get the feedback from this community as well as it looks like you've already started thinking about it.

The idea would be that despite which PHP version manager a developer was using a single .php-version file would account for all of them and be able to be committed to a project. Here are some of the specifications I think would be a good start.

.php-version file

The file itself should contain a single string such as 5.6.22. Acceptable values would include:

• 5.6 (which would use the latest version for the 5.6 release that you have locally)
• 5.6-RC4 (which would use the RC4 of the 5.6 release)

Project specific

If a user puts a .php-version inside of a project, upon changing into that directory the PHP version is updated to use the requested version.

Global

Should a user want to change the global PHP version used, they can add a .php-version file to $HOME and it would be applied when a local .php-version could not be found.

What are your thoughts?