Gulp plugin for running a PHP server?

Question

I'm looking to transition over from grunt to gulp. However I'm not finding a way to serve PHP files with livereload support, such as gateway (https://www.npmjs.org/package/gateway) using mounts. Are ther any plugins out there for running/server PHP using a gulp task?

Answer 1

I asked totally the same question few weeks ago. I want to start a native PHP server under Gulp, because I like the syntax better than Grunt. I also want to use PHP just to include other HTML files. :) It turns out there is a 'gulp-connect-php' plugn which has a very similar syntax to 'grunt-php' plugin.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-connect-php

https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-php

Here is my code to Gulp:

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    livereload = require('gulp-livereload'),
    connectPHP = require('gulp-connect-php');

gulp.task('connect', function() {
  connectPHP.server({
    hostname: '0.0.0.0',
    bin: 'C:/php/php.exe',
    ini: 'C:/php/php.ini',
    port: 8000,
    base: 'dev',
    livereload: true
  });
});

I also setted the exe and ini file location.

If you interested in, this is the code for Grunt:

php: {
  watch: {
    options: {
      livereload: true,
      bin: 'C:/php/php.exe',
      ini: 'C:/php/php.ini',
      base: '../development',
      port: 8000
    }
  }
}

I hope it helps!