How to test PHP8 on MAC OS

If you want to test out the new feature of php8 on MAC OS, you can always build the PHP from the sources.

But I propose a quicker and more secure(isolated) method that won’t change your system.

We are gonna use the docker, so please install it.

After that clone this repo to your machine, https://github.com/igorrebega/php8.0-docker

Go to the docker folder and run

docker-compose up

When you will see logs that look like this:

Go to the localhost:8000, you should see this:

localhost:8000

Now you can edit the app/public/index.php file and test php8 features: