I wanted to try the Tideways profiler with my PHP 7 installed via MacPorts. Since Tiodeways can only be installed using Homebrew on a Mac, I went ahead and installed that:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)

Then I followed the installation routine as laid out in the Tideways documentation:

brew tap tideways/homebrew-profiler
brew install pcre
brew install php70-tideways --without-homebrew-php

This failed for me, saying Error: No available formula with the name "php70" after building the extension. So… I did this instead:

unzip ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/php70-tideways-v4.0.5.zip
cd php-profiler-extension-4.0.5
phpize
./configure
make
sudo cp modules/tideways.so /opt/local/lib/php70/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20151012

Now the next step is to:

brew install tideways-daemon

Start the stuff with:

sudo brew services start tideways/profiler/tideways-daemon

I needed to use sudo, otherwise I had this in /usr/local/var/tideways/daemon.log

2016/07/14 10:27:36 Listen Unix Socket: listen unix /usr/local/var/run/tidewaysd.sock: bind: permission denied

Now I needed to do some configuration, again followed the docs for that. Since I installed the extension manually, I added this as well:

extension="tideways.so"

Now php -m listed the tideways module and php -i showed details about it as well. Including a line saying "Tideways.php found: No". Aha, this needs another step: Tideways.php must be included to use the actual UI. The extension README.md explains this:

That should be it, now on to actually using it…

Note: For now, I do get measurements collected (according to the daemon log), but nothing appears in the tideways.io UI.