Install PHP extensions for Laravel 8 on Arch Linux
In our previous post we saw how install PHP extensions in Arch Linux. In today's post we will install all those extensions required in Laravel 8. For the purposes of this post we will assume that you have the latest version of Arch Linux and that you previously installed PHP 7.4.
Requirements
The following extensions are required in version 8 of Laravel.
- PHP >= 7.3
- BCMath PHP Extension
- Ctype PHP Extension
- Fileinfo PHP extension
- JSON PHP Extension
- Mbstring PHP Extension
- OpenSSL PHP Extension
- PDO PHP Extension
- Tokenizer PHP Extension
- XML PHP Extension
Installation
To install these extensions just run the following command.
sudo pacman -S php-intlThe following extensions must be enabled in the php.ini file. To find the path to the php configuration file you can run the following command:
php -i | grep php.iniOnce this is done you must uncomment the respective lines.
extension=bcmath
extension=intl
Other extensions that you may need if you consume web services are the following and they should be uncommented as well.
extension=curl
extension=soapIf you are going to use MySQL as database you will also need to enable the following extension.
extension=pdo_mysqlIf you also plan to use Redis for queues you will need to install php-redis.
sudo pacman -S php-redisAnd if you are developing and your redis server is on the same machine you should install the redis server.
sudo pacmann -S redis