app/docs/ADDITIONAL.md

Q&A

Q: Does this support Apple Silicon?

Yes. This is a universal app.

Q: Is PHP 8.x supported?

Yes.

Q: This app is doing network requests? Why?

It's Homebrew. I can't prevent brew from doing things via the network when I invoke it.

PHP Monitor itself doesn't do any network requests. Feel free to check the source code or intercept the traffic, if you don't believe me.

Q: How can I set this up on a fresh Mac?

If you want to set up your computer for the very first time, here's how I do it:

Install Homebrew first.

Install PHP, composer, add to path:

brew install php
brew install composer
nano .zshrc

Make sure the following line is not in the comments:

export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH

and add the following to your .zshrc:

export PATH=$HOME/bin:~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH

Make sure PHP is linked correctly:

which php

should return: /usr/local/bin/php

composer global require laravel/valet
valet install

This should install dnsmasq and set up Valet. Great, almost there!

valet trust

Finally, run PHP Monitor. Since the app is notarized and signed with a developer ID, it should work.

Q: I want PHP Monitor to start up when I boot my Mac!

You can do this by dragging PHP Monitor.app into the Login Items section in System Preferences > Users & Groups for your account.

Super convenient!

Q: PHP Monitor says that the latest version of PHP is not installed, but it is!

Try installing again using brew install php.

This should resolve the issue.

Q: PHP Monitor reports another version compared to phpinfo on my local website, what is going on?

Beginning with version 2.0 you'll get alerts about this at startup.

If you're still seeing another version of PHP in your scripts running on your local webserver (nginx) — e.g. when running phpinfo() — I recommend you shut down all PHP services that are currently active. You can find out what services are active by running:

sudo brew services list | grep php

This will present to you a list of services, like so (depending on the installed versions of PHP):

php           started root /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.php.plist
php@5.6       stopped
php@7.0       stopped
php@7.1       stopped
php@7.2       stopped
php@7.3       stopped

You'll want to make sure that only one service is running and that it is running as root. You can terminate a service by running:

sudo brew services stop {service_name}

So in order to disable PHP 7.3, you'd need to run:

sudo brew services stop php@7.3

If you notice that PHP FPM is running as your own user account, you can turn off the service by running:

brew services stop php@7.3

The easiest way to make sure that PHP Monitor works again is to run the following commands:

sudo brew services stop php
sudo brew services stop php@7.3
sudo brew services stop php@7.2
sudo brew services stop php@7.1
sudo brew services stop php@7.0
sudo brew services stop php@5.6
sudo brew services stop nginx

Then, in PHP Monitor, select "Restart php-fpm service", which should start the service.

Alternatively, you can run sudo brew services start php@7.4 where 7.4 is your preferred version of PHP (for the latest version of PHP, you may omit @7.4 like in the example above).