Faas: Feature: Official vs community PHP support

[alexellis]

OpenFaaS can support any language due to our focus on portability, but with each "supported" language there is a cost to the regular contributors. I want to gauge the interest levels in moving a PHP template into the official repository.

Existing community-supported PHP templates

@itscaro put together the "original" PHP template here:

https://github.com/itscaro/openfaas-template-php/

@andrew-s has put together a newer option for PHP 7.x (I have not tested this)

https://github.com/itscaro/openfaas-template-php/compare/master...seymourlabs:master

Please comment below and whether this would be for work/business or for fun.

[itscaro]

Cool 👍 I will have a look @alexellis @andrew-s

[Brunty]

I'd use this for personal stuff, work is a possibility too

[alexellis]

@andrew-s let's look at a PR to the templates repo to add your template there for the latest PHP version?

[andrew-s]

@alexellis Yeah, sounds good - let me know what you need and I'll get it going.

[Brunty]

If there’s anything I can help with let me know :)

[ssx]

Happy to be a test bunny too.

[alexellis]

How about a PR to the templates repo? Please just checkout the contribution guide in the faas repo before starting that though.

[andrew-s]

Apologies for the delay, see the PR at; https://github.com/openfaas/templates/pull/65

[alexellis]

Thanks Andrew, I see some people have given feedback given on the PR. I've also left some messages.

[alexellis]

Derek close: PHP template merged

[alexellis]

@Brunty @ssx thanks for volunteering to help. Please can you both go ahead and take the template for a test-drive?

[Brunty]

@alexellis will do now I'm back from Scotland PHP :)

[ssx]

Haven't had a chance to look at this yet as I've been away from a computer for a short while.

Will take a look this week and provide feedback.