---
title: "PIE (PHP Installer for Extensions)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/pie-php-installer-for-extensions--zgin6zhf2
source_url: https://laravel-news.com/pie
type: article
source: "Laravel News"
published: 2024-11-28T13:10:42.657Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:53:39.132Z
tags: ["devtools", "php", "webdev"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 33
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# PIE (PHP Installer for Extensions)

**[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 2 min read · 33 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

PIE (PHP Installer for Extensions) simplifies managing PHP extensions by providing a modern, flexible alternative to PECL. Extensions can be distributed via Packagist and installed using a familiar Composer-like process. The project is in active development with a stable pre-release available. Developers can install extensions with a simple command and extension authors can make their extensions compatible by adding a composer.json file.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@arzola** · 0 upvotes

> This is great PEAR and PECL sucks

**@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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