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[DevOps & Deployment](/categories/devops) 4. / 5. heroku/heroku-buildpack-php ActiveLibrary[DevOps & Deployment](/categories/devops) heroku/heroku-buildpack-php =========================== Toolkit for starting a PHP application locally, with or without foreman, using the same config for PHP and Apache2/Nginx as on Heroku v292(3w ago)8141.4M↓18.5%1.6k[41 issues](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php/issues)[3 PRs](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php/pulls)10MITShellCI passing Since Apr 29Pushed 2d ago121 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php)[ Docs](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php)[ RSS](/packages/heroku-heroku-buildpack-php/feed)WikiDiscussions main Synced 2d ago READMEChangelog (10)DependenciesVersions (302)Used By (10) Heroku buildpack: PHP [![CI](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php/actions/workflows/ci.yml) ========================================================================================================================================================================================= [](#heroku-buildpack-php-) [![php](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/heroku/buildpacks/refs/heads/main/assets/images/buildpack-banner-php.png)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/heroku/buildpacks/refs/heads/main/assets/images/buildpack-banner-php.png) This is the official [Heroku buildpack](http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks) for PHP applications. It uses Composer for dependency management, supports all recent versions of PHP as runtimes, and offers a choice of Apache2 or Nginx web servers. Usage ----- [](#usage) You'll need to use at least an empty `composer.json` in your application. ``` $ echo '{}' > composer.json $ git add composer.json $ git commit -m "add composer.json for PHP app detection" ``` If you also have files from other frameworks or languages that could trigger another buildpack to detect your application as one of its own, e.g. a `package.json` which might cause your code to be detected as a Node.js application even if it is a PHP application, then you need to manually set your application to use this buildpack: ``` $ heroku buildpacks:set heroku/php ``` This will use the officially published version. To use the default branch from GitHub instead: ``` $ heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php ``` Please refer to [Dev Center](https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/php) for further usage instructions. Custom Platform Repositories ---------------------------- [](#custom-platform-repositories) The buildpack uses Composer repositories to resolve platform (`php`, `ext-something`, ...) dependencies. To use a custom Composer repository with additional or different platform packages, add the URL to its `packages.json` to the `HEROKU_PHP_PLATFORM_REPOSITORIES` config var: ``` $ heroku config:set HEROKU_PHP_PLATFORM_REPOSITORIES="https://.s3..amazonaws.com/heroku-24-amd64/packages.json" ``` To allow the use of multiple custom repositories, the config var may hold a list of multiple repository URLs, separated by a space character, in ascending order of precedence (meaning the last repository listed is handled first by Composer for package lookups). **Please note that Heroku cannot provide support for issues related to custom platform repositories and packages.** ### Disabling the Default Repository [](#disabling-the-default-repository) If the first entry in the list is "`-`" instead of a URL, the default platform repository is disabled entirely. This can be useful when testing development repositories, or to forcefully prevent the use of any packages from the default platform repository. ### Repository Priorities [](#repository-priorities) It is possible to control [Composer Repository Priorities](https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/repository-priorities.md) for custom platform repositories: whether Composer should - treat a given repository as canonical; - exclude specific packages from a repository; - only allow specific packages from a repository. These repository options (`canonical`, `exclude` and `only`) are controlled using the following query strings in the repository URL: - `composer-repository-canonical` (`true` or `false`; defaults to `true`) - `composer-repository-exclude` (comma-separated list of excluded package names) - `composer-repository-only` (comma-separated list of allowed package names) For example, the following config var will allow only packages `ext-igbinary` and `ext-redis` from `customrepo.com`; all other packages are looked up in the default repository: ``` $ heroku config:set HEROKU_PHP_PLATFORM_REPOSITORIES="https://customrepo.com/packages.json?composer-repository-only=ext-igbinary,ext-redis" ``` ### Building Custom Repositories [](#building-custom-repositories) For instructions on how to build custom platform packages (and a repository to hold them), please refer to the instructions [further below](#custom-platform-packages-and-repositories). Development ----------- [](#development) The following information only applies if you're forking and hacking on this buildpack for your own purposes. ### Custom Platform Packages and Repositories [](#custom-platform-packages-and-repositories) Please refer to the [README in `support/build/`](support/build/README.md) for instructions. ### Health Score 76 — ExcellentBetter than 100% of packages Maintenance96 Actively maintained with recent releases Popularity67 Solid adoption and visibility Community48 Growing community involvement Maturity83 Battle-tested with a long release history Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 91.6% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. 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