Does glitch support PHP?

[SpeedyCraftah]

Does glitch support/have PHP installed? If so what version?

[househaunt]

I think they generally advise that you remix an existing project running PHP – this might point you in the right direction

Cannot use php in glitch

@mishavee is correct in that you need some way to tell Glitch what to do when your project starts up. The existing PHP examples largely use a glitch.json file which is an alternative to package.json but for non-Node projects. Additionally you need some sort of server to run your PHP code, since Glitch assumes that Node is your server. Most of the examples I’ve worked with include specific Apache web server information in the project, so starting out by Remixing one of those projects makes sure y…

[cori]

Hey @SpeedyCraftah Glitch project containers currently have PHP 7 installed:

app@anonymous-anaconda:~ 13:13 
$ php -v
PHP 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.5 (cli) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.5, Copyright (c) 1999-2017, by Zend Technologies

The post @househaunt linked to gives some additional guidance on using PHP on Glitch.