The PHP driver is implemented as a native PHP extension and leverages the C/C++ driver. The driver will build on most standard Unix-like and Microsoft Windows platforms.
Packages are available for the following platforms:
NOTE: The build procedures only need to be performed for driver development or if your system doesn't have packages available for download and installation.
- PHP 5.6, PHP 7.0, and PHP 7.1
- 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64)
- Thread safe (TS) and non-thread safe (NTS)
- Compilers: GCC 4.1.2+, Clang 3.4+, and MSVC 2012/2015
The PHP Extension depends on the following software:
The driver is known to build on CentOS/RHEL 6/7, Mac OS X 10.10/10.11 (Yosemite and El Capitan), Mac OS 10.12 (Sierra), and Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 LTS.
NOTE: The driver will also build on most standard Unix-like systems using GCC 4.1.2+ or Clang 3.4+.
CentOS/RHEL 6 ships with PHP v5.3.x as the default version of PHP; which is not supported. A supported version of PHP can be installed by performing the following:
yum install epel-release
rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm
Once completed PHP v5.6.x, v7.0.x, or v7.1.x can be installed:
yum install automake cmake gcc-c++ git libtool pcre-devel php71w-devel php71w-pear
CentOS/RHEL 7 ships with PHP v5.4.x as the default version of PHP; which is not supported. A supported version of PHP can be installed by performing the following:
yum install epel-release
rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/latest.rpm
Once completed PHP v5.6.x, v7.0.x, or v7.1.x can be installed:
yum install automake cmake gcc-c++ git libtool pcre-devel php71w-devel php71w-pear
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Debian 8) ships with PHP v5.5.x as the default version of PHP; which is not supported. A supported version of PHP can be installed by performing the following:
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt-get update
Once completed PHP v5.6.x, v7.0.x, or v7.1.x can be installed:
apt-get install build-essential cmake git libpcre3-dev php7.1-dev
Starting with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Debian 9) PHP v5.5.x has been removed as the default version of PHP and has been replaced with either PHP v7.0.x or PHP v7.1.x:
apt-get install build-essential cmake git libpcre3-dev php7.1-dev
brew update
brew upgrade
brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php
brew install autoconf automake libtool php71 --with-pear
yum install gmp-devel
apt-get install libgmp-dev
brew install gmp
libuv v1.x should be used in order to ensure all features of the C/C++ driver and the PHP driver are available. When using a package manager for your operating system make sure you install v1.x; if available.
Packages are available from our download server:
brew install libuv
The following procedures should be performed if packages are not available for your system.
pushd /tmp
wget http://dist.libuv.org/dist/v1.13.1/libuv-v1.13.1.tar.gz
tar xzf libuv-v1.13.1.tar.gz
pushd libuv-v1.13.1
sh autogen.sh
./configure
make install
popd
popd
yum install openssl-devel
apt-get install libssl-dev
brew install openssl
NOTE: For Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and Mac OS 10.12 (Sierra) a link needs to be created in order to make OpenSSL available to the building libraries:
brew link --force openssl
Packages are available from our download server and the latest version of the driver be used:
The following procedures should be performed if packages are not available for your system.
The C/C++ driver is made available as a submodule; if preferred the source is also available here.
git update --init lib\cpp-driver
mkdir build
pushd build
cmake ..
make
make install
popd
Refer to the official build documentation for more detailed instructions.
The PHP Extension Community Library (PECL) is a repository for PHP extensions. A database package which can ease building and installing the PHP extension can be installed with the following:
pecl install cassandra
The following procedures should be performed if packages or PECL is not available for your system.
pushd ext
phpize
popd
mkdir build
pushd build
../ext/configure
make
make install
popd
To determine where the php.ini
file is located on your system run the
following command:
php -r "echo php_ini_loaded_file();"
Edit the php.ini
file and add the following line to enable the extension:
; DataStax PHP Driver for Apache Cassandra
extension=cassandra.so
To verify the extension is being loaded the following command can be executed:
php -i | grep -A 10 "^cassandra$"
In order to execute the Behat test suite and PHPUnit unit and integration tests Composer must downloaded and installed:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar install
We provide a self-contained batch script for building the PHP driver and all of its dependencies. In order to run it, you have to install the build dependencies and clone the repository with the DataStax PHP driver for Apache Cassandra.
- Download and install Bison
- Make sure Bison is in your system PATH and not installed in a directory with
spaces (e.g.
%SYSTEMDRIVE%\GnuWin32
)
- Make sure Bison is in your system PATH and not installed in a directory with
spaces (e.g.
- Download and install CMake
- Make sure to select the option "Add CMake to the system PATH for all users" or "Add CMake to the system PATH for current user"
- Download and install Git
- Make sure to select the option "Use Git from Windows Command Prompt" or manually add the git executable to the system PATH.
- Download and install ActiveState Perl
- Make sure to select the option "Add Perl to PATH environment variable"
- Download and install Python v2.7.x
- Make sure to select/install the feature "Add python.exe to Path"
The batch script detects installed versions of Visual Studio to simplify the build process on Windows and select the correct version of Visual Studio for the PHP version the driver is being built for.
First you will need to open a "Command Prompt" to execute the batch script. Running the batch script without any arguments will build the driver for PHP v7.1 and for the current system architecture (e.g. x64).
To perform advanced build configuration, execute the batch script with the
--HELP
argument to display the options available.
Usage: VC_BUILD.BAT [OPTION...]
--DEBUG Enable debug build
--RELEASE Enable release build (default)
--DISABLE-CLEAN Disable clean build
--ENABLE-THREAD-SAFETY Enable thread safety
--ENABLE-PACKAGES [version] Enable package generation (5.6, 7.0, 7.1) (*)
--ENABLE-TEST-CONFIGURATION Enable test configuration build
--PHP-VERSION [version] PHP version 5.6, 7.0, and 7.1 (**)
--X86 Target 32-bit build (***)
--X64 Target 64-bit build (***)
C/C++ Driver Options
--USE-BOOST-ATOMIC Use Boost atomic
--HELP Display this message
* Minimum supported officially released PHP binary installations
** Defaults to PHP v7.1 if --PHP-VERSION is not used
*** Default target architecture is determined based on system architecture
Ensure the driver is built with --ENABLE-TEST-CONFIGURATION in order to execute the Behat test suite and PHPUnit unit and integration tests.
The PHP driver extension can also be built using the
Build your own PHP on Windows instructions followed by the
Building PECL extensions instruction where the driver can be statically
linked into the PHP executable or as an import (DLL) library. This process
requires that the binary dependencies of the PHP driver extension be included
in thephpdev\vc##\x##\deps
directory along with the standard PHP library
dependencies. Use --enable-cassandra
to build library into the PHP executable
and --enable-cassandra=shared
for import (DLL) library.
The PHP driver extension dependencies not included with the standard PHP library can be download here.
Note: The binary libraries downloaded/used must be compatible with the MSVC compiler and the PHP driver extension.
bin/behat
bin\behat.bat
bin/phpunit
bin\phpunit.bat