Install PHP

Let's install PHP:

Firstly we need to get the Ondrej repo ready for 8.4:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/apache2
sudo sed -i 's/oracular/noble/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ondrej-ubuntu-php-oracular.sources
sudo sed -i 's/oracular/noble/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ondrej-ubuntu-apache2-oracular.sources
sudo apt update

Now we can install the PHP and functions we require:

sudo apt install php8.4 php8.4-cli -y
sudo apt install php8.4-{bz2,curl,mbstring,intl,fpm,gd,mysqlnd,opcache,zip,intl,common,bcmath,readline,apcu,xml,dom,mcrypt} -y
sudo apt install php-cli php-mailparse -y