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A utility for rapidly deploying Docker for PHP apps.

Watch the zero-dependency installation video: https://youtu.be/d8o9p2DimME
Installing on a legacy PHP 5.6 app in 2 minutes: https://youtu.be/xZxaJcsbrWU

This project has been tested against over 350,000 open-sourced Packagist packages (via the Bettergist Archiver project) and is compatible with 99.999% of them.

Includes:

PHP 5.6, 7.0-7.4 + 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3, and 8.4-beta4.
Nginx
Redis v7.2
PostgreSQL v16
MariaDB v10.11
Oracle ext-oci

The phpexperts/php:VESION-full images contain every bundled PHP extension, and Redis.

imap
ldap
pspell
redis
snmp
xmlrpc

The phpexperts/php:VERSION-oracle images contain everything in the full image plus drivers for Oracle (ext-oci8),

If you need an extension that is not available in the full build, please create an Issue at GitHub.

Installation

Watch the Installation HOWTO video.
Here's another Zero Install demo including PHP 8.4 and the php-ci system for testing every version of PHP.

Via Bash (Zero PHP dependencies)

bash <(curl -s 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PHPExpertsInc/dockerize/v12.x/dockerize.sh')

Then edit credentials in .env.

docker compose up -d

Via Composer

# Ensure that vendor/bin is in your PATH and before /usr/bin.
composer require --dev phpexperts/dockerize
vendor/bin/php dockerize
# Edit credentials in .env.
docker-compose up -d

Don't forget to edit your docker-compose.yml!

Configure your PATH

In order to dockerize your existing PHP project, do the following:

Ensure that your profile PATH includes ./vendor/bin and that it takes priority over any other directory that may include a php executable:

PATH=./vendor/bin:$PATH

Thank you, JetBrains

JetBrains generously grants this project a free Open-Source License to PhpStorm and all other JetBrains products as part of its Open Source License initiative.

Advantages over other dockerized PHP projects

Super fast, completely automated installation. (Great for testing multiple versions on CIs)
The BIG difference between www.phpdocker.io and Dockerize PHP is that Dockerize PHP provides all of the client utilities, where phpdocker.io provides NONE of them.

Out of the box, you have per-project binaries:

php
composer
php-ci.sh
mysql
mysqldump
psql
pg_dump
createdb
dropdb
redis
redis-cli

PHP CI via Docker

With the php-ci.sh shell script, you can easily test your app or library against every major version of PHP (currently 7.4-8.3):

In the project root directory, where your phpunit.xml is, or where you'd normally run phpunit:

vendor/bin/php-ci.sh

It will then automagically update composer and run the appropriate version of PHPUnit for all of the major PHP versions supported by your project via the power of Docker.

Latest Changes

v12.0.1

[2024-12-13 01:51:43 CST] Added PHP 8.4 support to php-ci.sh HEAD -> v12.x, origin/v12.x

v12.0.0

[2024-12-12 16:19:40 CST] Added support for PHP 8.4.
[2024-12-12 23:55:18 CST] Majorly overhauled the dockerize installer.

v11.1.0

[2024-09-26 07:37:40 CDT] Add composer to the PHP 8.4 image. HEAD -> v11.0
[2024-09-26 07:36:44 CDT] Fixed the PHP 8.4 entrypoint to use the standard entrypoint.
[2024-09-13 03:48:00 CDT] Added support for PHP 8.4 beta5.
[2024-09-12 05:30:37 CDT] [m] Updated the README.
[2024-09-12 01:58:49 CDT] [m] Use the new ENV format in the Dockerfiles.
[2024-09-12 01:44:09 CDT] Fixes for PHP 8.4 beta4 builds.
[2024-09-09 12:55:33 CDT] [m] Prioritized the installation instructions in the README.md.

v11.0.0

[2024-09-07 18:55:07 CDT] [major] Upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat.
[2024-09-07 18:55:45 CDT] Fixed a major reversion in web-debug by readding php-fpm.
[2024-09-07 17:20:24 CDT] Added initial steps for creating a distroless PHP image. origin/v11.0
[2024-09-07 19:00:42 CDT] Use a docker volume to store apt metdata.

v10.0.3

[2024-06-29 10:13:12 CDT] [php-ci] Dynamically fetch and compute the supported PHP versions from the composer.json.
[2024-06-29 10:20:39 CDT] [php-ci] Use phpunit's default config if there aren't version-specific xmls.
[2024-06-29 10:20:48 CDT] [php-ci] Added support for PHPUnit v11.
[2024-06-29 10:31:50 CDT] Create a Packagist alias to phpexperts/dockerise for SEO.

v10.0.2

[2024-06-26 00:57:05 CDT] Added my php-ci.sh script.

v10.0.0

[2024-05-24 07:40:15 CDT] Added a comprehensive zero-dependency Bash-via-curl installer.
[2024-05-24 07:31:26 CDT] Added a mechanism for finding the first open HTTP port for nginx. master
[2024-05-24 07:30:16 CDT] Redis removed v7.3 from docker; switched to v7.2.

v9.2.1

[2024-05-23 08:17:00 CDT] Upgraded to MariaDB 10.11, Redis 7.3, and Postgres 16.

v9.2.0

[2024-05-21 21:31:26 CDT] Configured it so that composer will run the install script.

v9.1.2

[2024-05-21 06:27:48 CDT] Fixes docker logs being truncated. origin/v9.

v9.1.1

[2024-01-16 03:15:49 CST] [major] Fixed a critical bug that prevented the dockerized php CLI from running in projects with a defined network.
[2024-01-14 14:22:31 CST] Fixed the Docker installer.
[2024-01-14 14:13:58 CST] Renamed the installer.
[2024-01-14 14:12:02 CST] Switched the installer from wget to curl.

v9.1.0: New zero-dependency Bash Installer

[2024-01-14 07:06:07 CST] Added a zero-PHP-dependency Bash installer.
[2024-01-14 07:04:47 CST] Added support for Linux ACLs in the base Linux image.
[2024-01-14 07:03:35 CST] Fixed docker building bugs in base-oracle.

v9.0.1:

[2024-01-14 06:40:56 CDT] [major] Fixed a critical bug that prevented the dockerized php CLI from running in new projects.

v9.0.0: Version 9.0.0: New full PHP image, Oracle ext-oci8, and a new build system.

[2024-01-13 23:04:49 CST] Added the Oracle ext-oci8 binaries, built against Ubuntu 22.04.
[2024-01-13 22:51:39 CST] Added a docker build that contains the Oracle DB's ext-oci8 extension.
[2024-01-13 22:50:16 CST] Added wget to the base PHP image.
[2024-01-12 17:30:47 CST] Refactored IonCube builds so that the extension is only downloaded once.
[2024-01-12 14:49:27 CST] Added a full docker build that contains every bundled PHP extension, and then some.

Manage with docker-compose

To control the containers, use docker-compose.

# Downloads the images, creates and launches the containers.
docker-compose up -d
# View the logs
docker-compose logs -ft
# Stop the containers
docker-compose stop

That's it! You now have the latest LEPP (Linux, Nginx, PostgreSQL, PHP) stack or the latest LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, PHP) stack.

User ID control

It is possible to control what UID the initial process (usually PHP) and/or PHP-FPM processes run as. The bin/php file already does this for the initial process.

This is important if you are mounting a volumes into the container, as the the UID of the initial process or PHP-FPM will likely need to match the volume to be able to read and/or write to it.

PHP-FPM process UID

To set the UID for the PHP-FPM process, you should set the PHP_FPM_USER_ID environmental variable on the container. e.g:

docker run -e PHP_FPM_USER_ID=1000 phpexperts/php:7 php-fpm5.6

php.ini directives

You can modify certain php.ini directives by setting environmental variables within the container. The following is a list of environmental variables and the php.ini directives that they correspond to:

e.g. the following will start a PHP container with the post_max_size to 30 Megabytes:

docker run -e PHP_POST_MAX_SIZE=30M phpexperts/php:7

Distribution

Docker Hub:

About PHP Experts, Inc.

PHP Experts, Inc., is my consultation company. It's a small company of a half dozen highly skilled Full Stack PHP devs, including myself, whom I place at 1099 positions at other corporations. We fill both long-term positions and, for crazy devs like me, short-term. If you ever wanted to work on a different project/company every few months or even weeks, anywhere in the continental U.S., Europe, or South East Asia, it's fantastic.

Since 2015, I have set up branches in Las Vegas, Houston, the UK, Dublin, Costa Rica, Colombia, India, and the Philippines. If someone has a work auth in any of those places, we can place you almost anywhere you want. I travel 50% of the time out of choice. All over the world.

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