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Goodbye, Phix

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Back in 2009, I spoke at the PHP UK Conference about the pain of living with PHP’s fledgling frameworks, and I returned in 2011 to promote component-driven applications:



Back then, PEAR was the only tool available for distributing components. It was built in a time when hosting and sharing code was hard, and although PEAR made it possible to create components in PHP, PEAR never made it easy to do so.

Phix was an open-source tool that I wrote to sit on top of PEAR and make things easier. It gave you an easy-to-use build.xml file for Phing to automate all of the common tasks, a standardised file layout so that you could just drop in your code, and integration with Pirum so that you could build and publish.

Today, we don’t need any of these tools. PEAR has been replaced by Composer, and it’s so easy to use that there’s no need for Phing or a build.xml file. The PHP FIG standards have given us our file layouts, and as for publishing … today, all you need to do is push to GitHub and publishing happens automatically.

We no longer need Phix, and that’s a good thing.


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