Our company has a significant investment in PHP development as well as AWS. We desire the ability to run PHP in AWS Lambda despite the fact that it isn't formally supported. We created this system for building PHP Executables that will run properly in AWS Lambda Functions.

We have tested building PHP Versions:

• 7.1
• 7.0
• 5.6

We keep pre-baked archives on the release page:

https://github.com/stechstudio/php-lambda/releases

Un-archive that and skip the entire build process if you like.

The process depends on Docker.

Clone this repository and run:

$ ./build.sh 7.1.5

When complete you should have something like php-7.1.5-lambda.tar.gz in your working directory.

Creating a Lambda Deployment Package is beyond the scope of this read me. You must be familiar with the process.

Go about creating your Deployment Package as normal, and extract the php tar file into your base directory. This will result in three new directories if they didn't exist:

  ./bin
  ./lib
  ./include

You will find php at ./bin/php along with all the other executables we created. Adding this to your Deployment Package will add about 10M to the package size.

In your code you can reference /var/task/bin/php and you will need to ensure you customize the Lambda Function Environment Variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/task/lib from there you should be good to go!