---
title: "php/pie: The PHP Installer for Extensions"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/php-pie-the-php-installer-for-extensions-3ewcd08y1
source_url: https://github.com/php/pie
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2024-11-21T14:31:27.976Z
updated: 2024-12-12T07:29:56.090Z
tags: ["webdev", "tools", "php"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 65
comments: 6
language: en
---

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# php/pie: The PHP Installer for Extensions

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 1 min read · 65 upvotes · 6 comments

## Summary

PIE is a PHP installer for extensions that requires PHP 8.1 or newer but can install extensions for any PHP version. Extension maintainers are encouraged to add PIE support to their extensions. Users must download and validate pie.phar and can invoke PIE with PHP commands. Installation and usage details, supported extensions list, and further documentation are available in the usage docs.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@jamiecarl** · 9 upvotes

> Why?  How does this improve upon PECL and why should we use it instead?

**@markshust** · 4 upvotes

> What's the purpose of this module, and why should we use it?

**@silvioney** · 0 upvotes

> What is the difference to https://github.com/mlocati/docker-php-extension-installer?

**@vladutteodor18** · 0 upvotes

> just a few extensions available… Also… many of them are already available just with a command “apt-get install phpV-EXT”

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