Environment for local PHP development

This repo contains files for setting up a local development environment using docker. The environment contains the following tech stack:

• MariaDB
• MyPhpAdmin
• Nginx
• PHP 8
• Xdebug

Inspired by the PHP Vagrant Box https://github.com/antwanvdm/php-vagrant

Install docker desktop

To use this repo you need docker engine with docker compose installed.

Refrence the docker website to install docker engine on you machine. https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop

Get started

1. Navigate to the repo and open a terminal then execute this command:

 $ mkdir data/
       cd data/
       mkdir mariadb/
       cd ..

Running the environment

2. Next to start the environment run:

    $ docker-compose up --build

3. Place your projects and files in the "project folders"

4. In the browser navigate to: http://localhost/

Stopping the environment

You can easily stop the environment by opening docker desktop interface and stopping the network, or you can execute the following command:

    $ docker-compose down

PhpMyAdmin

PhpMyAdmin is available on http://localhost:8080

• The Host is 'mariadb' wich will resolve to the correct ip adress in the docker network *

When you are using PHP to connect to your local database use the following credentials

Credentials	values
Host	mariadb
User	root
Password	my-secret-pw

Contact

This development environment is meant for php development. Let me know if you have any feedback!

Goodluck! 🍀