Running PHP under WAMP

php_under_WAMP

We prefer to point to our WAMP PHP CLI as our system-wide PHP CLI version, and we do this by 
including the following script at /usr/local/bin/php:

    #!/bin/bash
    
    # e.g. php="/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/php/php.exe"
    php="/cygdrive/c/wamp/bin/php/current/php.exe"
    
    for ((n=1; n <= $#; n++)); do
        if [ -e "${!n}" ]; then
            # Converts Unix style paths to Windows equivalents
            path="$(cygpath --mixed ${!n} | xargs)"
    
            case 1 in
                $(( n == 1 )) )
                    set -- "$path" "${@:$(($n+1))}";;
                $(( n < $# )) )
                    set -- "${@:1:$((n-1))}" "$path" ${@:$((n+1)):$#};;
                *)
                    set -- "${@:1:$(($#-1))}" "$path";;
            esac
        fi
    done
    
    echo "$@"
    "$php" "$@"

ensuring that /usr/local/bin/php appears foremost in our path
creating a symlink which points /cygdrive/c/wamp/bin/php/current to our current version of PHP:

    ln -s /cygdrive/c/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.13 /cygdrive/c/wamp/bin/php/current

To ensure that this symlink is updated when we want to change our PHP CLI version, we can use the following script (php.switch):

    #!/usr/bin/bash
    
    # Allows us to change the CLI version of PHP, which is governed by the 
    # /cygdrive/c/wamp/bin/php/current symlink.
    
    function switch {
        PHP="/cygdrive/c/wamp/bin/php"
    
        unlink $PHP/current
        ln -s  $PHP/$1 $PHP/current
        echo ""
        echo "cli php path changed:"
        ls -la $PHP/current
    }
    
    echo " "
    echo "Current versions of PHP are:"
    echo "1. 5.3.13"
    echo "2. 5.4.26"
    echo " "
    echo "Select the version you'd like to configure WAMP to use [1 or 2]:"
    
    select version in "1" "2"; do
        case $version in
            1 ) switch php5.3.13; break;;
            2 ) switch php5.4.26; break;;
        esac
    done