diff --git a/dev/php/_init b/dev/php/_init
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+#!/usr/bin/env zsh
+source ${0:A:h}/../../deploy
+source env.zsh
+
+install() {
+  _ensure_repo madumlao/phpenv $PHPENV_ROOT
+  _ensure_repo php-build/php-build $PHPENV_ROOT/plugins/php-build
+  case $(_os) in
+    arch) pacaur --needed --noconfirm --noedit -S libmcrypt tidy ;;
+    macos) brew install libmcrypt tidy-html5 ;;
+  esac
+}
+
+update() {
+  if [[ -n $PHPENV_ROOT ]]; then
+    cd $PHPENV_ROOT && git pull
+    for ver in $PHPENV_ROOT/plugins/*(/N); do
+      cd $ver && git pull
+    done
+  fi
+}
+
+# link() { }
+
+# clean() { }
+
+init "$@"
diff --git a/dev/php/aliases.zsh b/dev/php/aliases.zsh
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+alias phe='phpenv'
+alias phr='php-boris'
+alias comp='composer'
diff --git a/dev/php/env.zsh b/dev/php/env.zsh
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+export PHPENV_ROOT="$XDG_DATA_HOME/phpenv"
+path=( $PHPENV_ROOT/bin $PHPENV_ROOT/shims $path )
+_cache phpenv init - --no-rehash