RVM equivalent for PHP?

Question

I can\'t seem to find a way to switch versions of PHP quickly. Is there something equivalent to ruby version manager for php? I need to switch between 5.3 and 5.2 on OS X.

Answer 1

if you're running apache I can suggest the way I solved this. Install different versions of PHP to different locations and prepare few apache php-x.y.z.conf files like

ScriptAlias /php/ "path/to/php-5.2.10/"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml
Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php-cgi"

    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

,

ScriptAlias /php/ "path/to/php-5.3.0/"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml
Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php-cgi"

    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

and so on, so you can quickly change the name of included .conf file and restart server. Or, like I did, make several virtual hosts having the same document root, but with different versions of PHP included:

    DocumentRoot "C:/www/localhost"
    ServerName local.php-5.2.10

    Include conf/php-5.2.10.conf

    
        Allow from All