nextcloud-docs/php

What is PHP?

PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. As of January 2013, PHP was installed on more than 240 million websites and 2.1 million web servers.

wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP

How to use this image.

Commandline

In the case that you have a PHP project run through the command line interface, you can do the following.

Create a Dockerfile in your php project.

FROM php:5.6-cli
ADD . /usr/src/myapp
WORKDIR /usr/src/myapp
CMD [ "php", "./your-script.php" ]

Then run the commands to build and run the docker image.

docker build -t my-php-app .
docker run -it --rm --name my-running-app my-php-app

Run a single PHP script.

For many single file projects, it may not be convenient to write a Dockerfile for your project. In such cases, you can run a php script by using the php docker image directly.

docker run -it --rm --name my-running-script -v $(pwd):/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp php:5.6-cli php your-script.php

With Apache

In the more common case, you will probably want to run PHP in conjunction with Apache httpd. Conveniently, there's a version of the php container that's packaged with the apache web server.

Create a Dockerfile in your php project.

FROM php:5.6-apache
ADD . /var/www/html

Then run the commands to build and run the docker image.

docker build -t my-php-app .
docker run -it --rm --name my-running-app my-php-app

Without a Dockerfile

If you don't want to include a Dockerfile in your project, then it is sufficient to do the following.

docker run -it --rm --name my-apache-php-app -v $(pwd):/var/www/html php:5.6-apache