Installing Open Swoole

Laravel Sail uses by default an image with PHP that includes Swoole modules. Swoole is distributed as a PECL module and you can find it here: https://pecl.php.net/package/swoole. The sources are here: https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src.

Some developers forked the source of Swoole, creating the Open Swoole project to address security concerns.

The reason for the fork is reported here: https://news-web.php.net/php.pecl.dev/17446.

So, if you want to use Swoole as the engine for Laravel Octane, you could decide to use the Open Swoole implementation. If you want to use Open Swoole, the installation and the configuration are the same as Swoole; Open Swoole is also distributed as a PECL module.

Laravel Octane supports both.

For demonstration purposes, I will install Open Swoole for a new Laravel project directly in the operating system (no Docker):

# installing new Laravel application
laravel new octane-ch03-openswoole
# entering into the new directory...