Virtual-environments: Add PHP 7.4 on macos using homebrew

[shivammathur]

Tool information

• Tool name: PHP
• Add or update? Add
• Desired version: 7.4
• Approximate size:
• If this is an add request:
  
  
  
  • Brief description of tool: PHP is a widely used programming language
  
  
  • URL for tool's homepage: https://www.php.net/
  
  

Area for Triage: PHP

Question, Bug, or Feature?: Feature

Virtual environments affected

• [X] macOS 10.15
• [ ] Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• [ ] Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• [ ] Windows Server 2016 R2
• [ ] Windows Server 2019

Can this tool be installed during the build?
Yes, but it takes around 3 to 5 minutes on each run, while it takes less than a minute on ubuntu and windows.
Installing this on the runner will have following benefits

• The system PHP version on macos is 7.3.9 which is old and needs to be update to 7.4.
• Anyone using PHP on macos would most likely be testing their PHP extension and would do that on different PHP versions. Once a PHP version is installed on the runner using homebrew, installing other versions will be faster as most dependencies are same between versions.

Are you willing to submit a PR?

Yes, if possible, these are the commands to do this.

brew install php
brew link --force --overwrite php

[ruudboon]

Currently MacOS is our bottleneck during our tests. This could would definitely speed up the process.

[shivammathur]

@alepauly, @thejoebourneidentity Please add this to the project.

[miketimofeev]

Hi @shivammathur
We have added brew PHP installation to macOS image generation. Image with PHP 7.4 will be rolled out next week. I will provide additional information when it's done.

[shivammathur]

@miketimofeev Thanks

[shivammathur]

@alepauly @miketimofeev
Tested PHP 7.4.2 on macOS runner. Works perfectly. Also now it takes less than a minute to setup other PHP versions using brew.

[maxim-lobanov]

Closing since changes were deployed to all VMs