Installing Cassandra PHP Extension

You can build the extension yourself or use one of the provided scripts. Below you’ll find installation instructions for Linux/OS X and Windows.

Linux/OS X

Install dependencies

The Cassandra PHP Extension depends on the following libraries:

homebrew

brew install libuv cmake gmp git

apt-get

sudo apt-get install g++ make cmake libuv-dev libssl-dev libgmp-dev php5 php5-dev openssl libpcre3-dev git

yum

sudo yum install automake cmake gcc gcc-c++ git libtool openssl-devel wget gmp gmp-devel boost php-devel pcre-devel git
pushd /tmp
wget http://libuv.org/dist/v1.4.2/libuv-v1.4.2.tar.gz
tar xzf libuv-v1.4.2.tar.gz
pushd libuv-v1.4.2
sh autogen.sh
./configure
sudo make install
popd
popd

Refer to the official documentation for the DataStax C/C++ Driver for Apache Cassandra in case you’re having issues installing any of its dependencies.

Install the PHP extension

Installing with pecl

The PHP driver is published to the official PECL repository, in order to install it, you have to first install the 2.0 version of the C/C++ driver and then run the following command.

pecl install cassandra

You can also use PECL to install the driver from source by specifying the provided package.xml file path as the argument to pecl install command.

git clone https://github.com/datastax/php-driver.git
cd php-driver
pecl install ext/package.xml

Installing with submoduled, statically compiled version of the C/C++ driver

git clone https://github.com/datastax/php-driver.git
cd php-driver
git submodule update --init
cd ext
./install.sh

Note The install.sh script will also compile and statically link into the extension a submoduled version of the DataStax C/C++ driver for Apache Cassandra. To use a version of cpp driver that you already have on your system, run phpize, ./configure and make install.

Don’t forget to enable the PHP extension after running install.sh:

echo -e "; DataStax PHP Driver\nextension=cassandra.so" >> `php --ini | grep "Loaded Configuration" | sed -e "s|.*:\s*||"`

Windows

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.

Obtaining Build Dependencies

Download and install Bison.
- Make sure Bison is in your system PATH and not installed in a directory with spaces (e.g. %SYSTEMDRIVE%\GnuWin32)
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”

Building the Driver

The batch script detects installed versions of Visual Studio to simplify the build process on Windows. If you have more than one version of Visual Studio installed you will be prompted to which version to use when compiling the driver.

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 v5.6 with Zend thread safety (ZTS) 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
    --DISABLE-THREAD-SAFETY           Disable thread safety
    --ENABLE-PACKAGES [version]       Enable package generation (5.5 and 5.6) (*)
    --ENABLE-TEST-CONFIGURATION       Enable test configuration build
    --PHP-VERSION [version]           PHP version 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, or 5.6 (**)
    --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 v5.6 if --PHP-VERSION is not used
*** Default target architecture is determined based on system architecture

Manual/PHP Step-by-Step Windows Build

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 the phpdev\vc##\x##\deps directory along with the standard PHP library dependencies. Use --enable-cassandra to built library into the PHP executable and --enable-cassandra=shared for import (DLL) library.

The PHP driver extension dependencies that are 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.

Enable Testing

Ensure the driver is built with –ENABLE-TEST-CONFIGURATION in order to execute the Behat test suite and PHPUnit unit tests. You will also need to install CCM; detailed instructions can be found in this blog post.

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