Install PHP Extension for PHP 5.6 on OSX with deprecated homebrew/php
Solution 1:
First install exolnet/homebrew-deprecated
$ brew tap exolnet/homebrew-deprecated
After it install deprecated package
$ brew install [email protected]
Solution 2:
I've found a solution to use old version of homebrew/php on my Mac.
Step 1
Go to last valid release of homebrew/php for php56
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-php/tree/966f6c318be2d80b4953cd8cdc112b9611eff8d9
and download the Zip file.
homebrew-php-966f6c318be2d80b4953cd8cdc112b9611eff8d9.zip
Step 2
Go to
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/
and rename the Tap
homebrew-php
in
old-homebrew-php
Step 3
Unzip
homebrew-php-966f6c318be2d80b4953cd8cdc112b9611eff8d9.zip
in
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/
and rename folder in
homebrew-php
Step 4
Search your php extension with brew:
$ brew search php56-redis
==> Searching local taps...
homebrew/php/php56-redis
==> Searching taps on GitHub...
==> Searching blacklisted, migrated and deleted formulae...
Step 5
Install pakages without updates:
HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew install homebrew/php/<formula>
This will stop the homebrew update for this command. If you want to prevent auto update for your shell session, use:
export HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1
to set it permanently, add it to your ~/.bash_profile.
Solution 3:
Now at 2022, I only found https://github.com/shivammathur/homebrew-php to be still working.
See Error while doing `brew tap exolnet/homebrew-deprecated`
EDIT:
As it turned out, that you might also need legacy mysql 5.7 together with the ancient php, I ended up using lando (based on docker) to get it up running. This is my .lando.yml:
name: app
recipe: drupal6 # pulls also composer and drush as a colateral, any other php 5.6 application will work never the less
config:
php: '5.6'
database: mysql:5.7
webroot: .
Greetings to my fellow archeologists ;)