php-alpm

A PHP extension to use Arch Linux's ALPM

This is still a work in progress. Although most features work, some do not and there may still be some memory leaking hidden in here.

The main thing to be cautious about is using AlpmTransaction as it is very leaky. If you are just using this to gather information from a Pacman database (using AlpmHandle, AlpmDb, and AlpmPkg), it should result in very few problems.

Requirements

You need the following to build and run this.

1. PHP >= 7.1
2. libalpm >=10.0

Building

Do what you'd normally do for a php extension:

Get the code:

$ git clone https://github.com/markzz/php-alpm.git

If you are not on Arch Linux, you will need to build and install pacman (which contains libalpm) first:

On Ubuntu (maybe Debian):

# apt-get install libarchive-dev
$ curl -O https://sources.archlinux.org/other/pacman/pacman-5.1.2.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf pacman-5.0.2.tar.gz
$ cd pacman-5.0.2 && ./configure --disable-doc && make
# make install

Build it:

$ phpize
$ ./configure --enable-alpm
$ make
# make install

You should now have alpm.so installed in your modules folder and you need to add extension=alpm.so to your php.ini.

Contributing

This project is licensed under the LGPLv2.1 and any and all contributions are welcome. You can either fork this on GitHub and file a Pull Request or you can send git formatted patches to mark.weiman@markzz.com. Whichever you prefer.