✨ 💡 Add and configure PHP 5.6, 7.0, and 7.1

[svpernova09]

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[mortscode]

Do you guys have an article that explains how to use different PHP versions per site?

I'm trying

Sites:
    - map: test.dev
       to: /path/to/public
       php: "5.6"

but it's still showing as PHP 7.1 when i run phpinfo()

[svpernova09]

@mortscode

The docs have been updated: https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/homestead#multiple-php-versions

[mortscode]

Do I need to checkout Homestead 6.x in my ~/Homestead directory?

Your docs still say:

// Clone the desired release...
git checkout v5.4.0

[svpernova09]

yes, it's impossible to keep the docs updated >.< Always checkout the latest tagged release: https://github.com/laravel/homestead/releases

[mortscode]

Awesome.

Thanks @svpernova09. I'll give it a go.

[mortscode]

I'm not too worried about it because i'm using 7.0 or 7.1 pretty exclusively now, but i'm getting an error in my homestead provision for 5.6:

Job for php5.6-fpm.service failed because the control process exited with error code. 
See "systemctl status php5.6-fpm.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Any thoughts?

[svpernova09]

Hrm, their may be a bug in the version, someone in slack was having a similar issue. can you fill out a new issue: https://github.com/laravel/homestead/issues/new and I'll see if I can recreate

[dmyers]

It looks like php 5.6 is missing mcrypt.

@mortscode Can you try removing your variables? I removed mine and that error went away for me.

[svpernova09]

@dmyers nice catch, fixed via #115

[mortscode]

what @svpernova09 said.