A global Composer package for easily creating Docker containers for local PHP development. Allows you to set up containers on a project by project basis.

Easily create Docker containers configured for development with Laravel, Symfony or plain vanilla PHP, with the following services:

• Nginx
• MySQL 8
• PHP 8.3 including OpCache and XDebug
• Redis

Pre-requisites:

You will need the following installed before you can make use of PHPEnv:

• Composer
• Docker Desktop

Then download and install PHPEnv globally:

composer global require dannyxcii/phpenv

To confirm that the package is installed successfully, run the phpenv command which will list the help text.

To run phpenv commands, ensure Docker Engine is running.

To build a new container for a project you can run the following command:

phpenv build project-name full/path/to/project-root

phpenv build portfolio-site /c/Development/Websites/portfolio-site

This will build a new container for your project and serve files from your-project-root/public at http://localhost:<port> with the port being a randomly assigned port. Once built your containers ports are static and will not change upon restarting your container.

Your database container name and IP can be found in Docker Desktop or by running the relevant Docker commands. Root credentials are root:docker.

• phpenv help
  • Displays a list of available commands.
• phpenv show
  • Display a list of environments created with phpenv.
• phpenv start <name>
  • Starts a container by saved name. Pass the name you used when running the build command.
• phpenv stop <name>
  • Stops a running container by saved name.
• phpenv destroy <name>
  • Destroys a container by saved name.
• phpenv attach <name>
  • Attach to the bash terminal within your projects container.