From c42e8970a4d51198472f6dcf196c5c0916aab033 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Olly Betts
-In this chapter, we discuss SWIG's support of PHP. SWIG currently supports
-generating wrappers for PHP7 and PHP8. Support for PHP5 was removed in SWIG
-4.0.0 and support for PHP4 was removed in SWIG 1.3.37.
+In this chapter, we discuss SWIG's support of PHP. Currently any PHP7 or PHP8
+release should work.
-Currently any PHP7 or PHP8 release should work.
+Support for PHP7 was added in SWIG 3.0.11 and for PHP8 in 4.1.0.
+Support for PHP5 was removed in SWIG 4.0.0 and support for PHP4 was removed in
+SWIG 1.3.37. There never was a PHP6 release.
+
In order to use this module, you will need to have a copy of the PHP -include files to compile the SWIG generated files. If you installed +include files to compile the SWIG generated C/C++ sources. If you installed PHP from a binary package, you may need to install a "php-dev" or "php-devel" package for these to be installed. You can find out where these files are by running php-config --includes. To use the built PHP module you