Bleeding Edge PHP on ZEIT Now

Today I would like to show you ZEIT Now platform. Well, you've probably heard about it. There are many blogposts about this awesome piece of technology (https://dev.to/search?q=zeit%20now).

But, I have some good news for PHP devs. Since June (06/2019) I am working on the enhanced PHP builders for ZEIT Now.

These builders support:

• multiple PHP versions (7.2.20, 7.3.7, 7.4.0alpha2) 🚀
  • official PHP builder is 7.1.22
• multiple running modes (server, cgi, cli, fpm) 🧙‍♂️
  • just pick whatever you like
• many preinstalled PHP extensions 📦
• install dependencies via Composer 🤩

The updated builders you can find at the Github juicyfx/now-php and I would appreciate any feedback.

How to test it? Take a look at examples

How to deploy under 1 minute? Create index.php and now.json in your project's folder. If you're not familiar with ZEIT Now, take a look at official website.

<?php 

phpinfo();

{
    "version": 2,
    "builds": [
      { "src": "old.php", "use": "@now/php" },
      { "src": "new.php", "use": "now-php" }
    ]
}

Yep, that's all. And now call now. 🤓

You should saw something like that.

At the end, some examples.

• official - https://php.now.sh/
• phpinfo - https://php.jfx.cz/
• extensions - https://php.jfx.cz/ext/
• ini - https://php.jfx.cz/ini/
• JSON API - https://php.jfx.cz/api/users.php
• test - https://php.jfx.cz/test.php

I'm also testing Caddy server with FPM and Bref.sh. There are many features you might be looking for.

PHP builder was separated from zeit/now-builders to solo repository - https://github.com/juicyfx/now-php. Take a look.

Happy testing,
Felix