symfony local:php:list cannot find PHP provided by Herd on Windows

[chrisdeeming]

I use Laravel Herd on Windows as a general purpose PHP/Node development environment. I'm having issues with getting symfony-cli to detect the PHP binary it provides.

symfony local:php:list -vvv
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\xampp\php (<nil>) -- XAMPP
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\cygwin64\bin (<nil>) -- Cygwin
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\cygwin\bin (<nil>) -- Cygwin
4:25AM DBG   Skipping C:\Program Files\Git\cmd, already in the PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in the PATH ([C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath_target_188806375 C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\Shared Libraries\redist\intel64\compiler C:\Windows\System32 C:\Windows C:\Windows\System32\wbem C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0 C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH C:\Program Files\Amazon\AWSCLIV2 C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin C:\Program Files\dotnet C:\Program Files\Git\cmd C:\Users\chris\.config\herd\bin\nvm C:\Users\chris\.config\herd\bin\nvm\v21.7.3 C:\Users\chris\scoop\shims C:\Users\chris\.config\herd\bin C:\Users\chris\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps C:\Users\chris\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin C:\Users\chris\AppData\Local\JetBrains\Toolbox\scripts C:\Program Files\Git\bin])
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath_target_188806375 (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\Shared Libraries\redist\intel64\compiler (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Windows\System32 (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Windows (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Windows\System32\wbem (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0 (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Program Files\Amazon\AWSCLIV2 (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Program Files\dotnet (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Program Files\Git\cmd (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Users\chris\.config\herd\bin\nvm (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Users\chris\.config\herd\bin\nvm\v21.7.3 (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Users\chris\scoop\shims (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Users\chris\.config\herd\bin (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Users\chris\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Users\chris\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Users\chris\AppData\Local\JetBrains\Toolbox\scripts (<nil>) -- PATH
4:25AM DBG Looking for PHP in C:\Program Files\Git\bin (<nil>) -- PATH
+---------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+--------+---------+
| Version | Directory |   PHP   |   PHP   |   PHP   | Server | System? |
|         |           |   CLI   |   FPM   |   CGI   |        |         |
+---------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+--------+---------+
+---------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+--------+---------+

The CLI doesn't find it via PATH because the binary is under a php83 sub-directory.

It seems to me it might be beneficial to extend the known paths that are looked for to include %USERPROFILE%/.config/herd/bin and all its subdirectories.

For now I've added .config/herd/bin/php83 directly to PATH to workaround this which seems to work:

+---------+---------------------------------------+---------+---------+-------------+---------+---------+
| Version |               Directory               |   PHP   |   PHP   |     PHP     | Server  | System? |
|         |                                       |   CLI   |   FPM   |     CGI     |         |         |
+---------+---------------------------------------+---------+---------+-------------+---------+---------+
| 8.3.6   | C:\Users\chris\.config\herd\bin\php83 | php.exe |         | php-cgi.exe | PHP CGI | *       |
+---------+---------------------------------------+---------+---------+-------------+---------+---------+

Naturally, the PATH would need to be updated to include each PHP version you install through Herd.