php7.2 curl,Home Brew PHP 7.2.5 Install with cURL

I have a localhost development environment on my Mac that uses homebrew's php formula and I'm pulling my hair out trying to install with a custom path to cURL rather than the default Mac OS version (v7.54.0) that uses SecureTransport for SSL. SecureTransport causes a lot of issues with SSL requests to remote services, so OpenSSL is pretty much a requirement for my purposes.

Here's the process I've taken so far: Installed curl through home brew with OpenSSL: brew install curl --with-openssl

Edited brew's php formula to modify the compile process, telling ./configure to use the brew installed curl (v7.59.0). I've tried --with-curl=/usr/local/Cellar/curl/7.59.0 and also --with-curl=#{Formula["curl"].opt_prefix}. The second option is just a dynamic symlink to the former.

Save the edits and rebuild php from the source: brew reinstall --build-from-source php

To verify that I have the write ./configure options I added a temporary line to my Brew formula edits that spits out the args passed. Here's what this looks like: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.2.5 --localstatedir=/usr/local/var --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/php/7.2 --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/etc/php/7.2 --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/etc/php/7.2/conf.d --with-pear=/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.2.5/share/php/pear --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --enable-dba --enable-dtrace --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-fpm --enable-intl --enable-mbregex --enable-mbstring --enable-mysqlnd --enable-opcache-file --enable-pcntl --enable-phpdbg --enable-phpdbg-webhelper --enable-shmop --enable-soap --enable-sockets --enable-sysvmsg --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-wddx --enable-zip --with-apxs2=/usr/local/opt/httpd/bin/apxs --with-bz2 --with-curl=/usr/local/Cellar/curl/7.59.0 --with-fpm-user=_www --with-fpm-group=_www --with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/opt/freetype --with-gd --with-gettext=/usr/local/opt/gettext --with-gmp=/usr/local/opt/gmp --with-icu-dir=/usr/local/opt/icu4c --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/opt/jpeg --with-kerberos --with-layout=GNU --with-ldap --with-ldap-sasl --with-libedit --with-libzip --with-mhash --with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock --with-mysqli=mysqlnd --with-ndbm --with-openssl=/usr/local/opt/openssl --with-password-argon2=/usr/local/opt/argon2 --with-pdo-dblib=/usr/local/opt/freetds --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd --with-pdo-odbc=unixODBC,/usr/local/opt/unixodbc --with-pdo-pgsql=/usr/local/opt/libpq --with-pgsql=/usr/local/opt/libpq --with-pic --with-png-dir=/usr/local/opt/libpng --with-pspell=/usr/local/opt/aspell --with-sodium=/usr/local/opt/libsodium --with-unixODBC=/usr/local/opt/unixodbc --with-webp-dir=/usr/local/opt/webp --with-xmlrpc --with-xsl --with-zlib

By all intensive purposes this should be working, but when I open up a phpinfo() after reinstalling php from the source I'm seeing the following under the Configure Command value: './configure' '--prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.2.5' '--localstatedir=/usr/local/var' '--sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/php/7.2' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/etc/php/7.2' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/etc/php/7.2/conf.d' '--with-pear=/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.2.5/share/php/pear' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-dba' '--enable-dtrace' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-fpm' '--enable-intl' '--enable-mbregex' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-mysqlnd' '--enable-opcache-file' '--enable-pcntl' '--enable-phpdbg' '--enable-phpdbg-webhelper' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-soap' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-wddx' '--enable-zip' '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/opt/httpd/bin/apxs' '--with-bz2' '--with-fpm-user=_www' '--with-fpm-group=_www' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/opt/freetype' '--with-gd' '--with-gettext=/usr/local/opt/gettext' '--with-gmp=/usr/local/opt/gmp' '--with-icu-dir=/usr/local/opt/icu4c' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/opt/jpeg' '--with-kerberos' '--with-layout=GNU' '--with-ldap' '--with-ldap-sasl' '--with-libedit' '--with-libzip' '--with-mhash' '--with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock' '--with-mysqli=mysqlnd' '--with-ndbm' '--with-openssl=/usr/local/opt/openssl' '--with-password-argon2=/usr/local/opt/argon2' '--with-pdo-dblib=/usr/local/opt/freetds' '--with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd' '--with-pdo-odbc=unixODBC,/usr/local/opt/unixodbc' '--with-pdo-pgsql=/usr/local/opt/libpq' '--with-pgsql=/usr/local/opt/libpq' '--with-pic' '--with-png-dir=/usr/local/opt/libpng' '--with-pspell=/usr/local/opt/aspell' '--with-sodium=/usr/local/opt/libsodium' '--with-unixODBC=/usr/local/opt/unixodbc' '--with-webp-dir=/usr/local/opt/webp' '--with-xmlrpc' '--with-xsl' '--with-zlib' '--with-curl'

If you notice, there's a trailing --with-curl at the tail of this, while everything else is in the order that's defined in the brew formula. I have no idea where or how this is appended onto the ./configure command, but this may be related to the cause of the issue.

For reference, here's the exact content of the modified php.rb formula for Brew:

Either way, I'm completely stumped here. Any help or assistance is very much appreciated.