PHP

Summary

Develop PHP based applications. Includes needed tools, extensions, and dependencies.

Metadata	Value
Categories	Languages
Image type	Dockerfile
Published images	mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/php
Available image variants	8 / 8-trixie, 8.5 / 8.5-trixie, 8.4 / 8.4-trixie, 8.3 / 8.3-trixie, 8.2 / 8.2-trixie, 8-bookworm, 8.5-bookworm, 8.4-bookworm, 8.3-bookworm, 8.2-bookworm (full list)
Published image architecture(s)	x86-64, arm64/aarch64 for trixie, and bookworm variants
Container host OS support	Linux, macOS, Windows
Container OS	Debian
Languages, platforms	PHP

See history for information on the contents of published images.

Using this image

You can directly reference pre-built versions of Dockerfile by using the image property in .devcontainer/devcontainer.json or updating the FROM statement in your own Dockerfile with one of the following:

• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/php (latest)
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/php:8 (or 8-trixie, 8-bookworm to pin to an OS version)
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/php:8.5 (or 8.5-trixie, 8.5-bookworm to pin to an OS version)
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/php:8.4 (or 8.4-trixie, 8.4-bookworm to pin to an OS version)
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/php:8.3 (or 8.3-trixie, 8.3-bookworm to pin to an OS version)
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/php:8.2 (or 8.2-trixie, 8.2-bookworm to pin to an OS version)

Refer to this guide for more details.

You can decide how often you want updates by referencing a semantic version of each image. For example:

• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/php:3-8 (or 3-8-trixie, 3-8-bookworm )
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/php:2.0-8 (or 3.0-8-trixie, 3.0-8-bookworm )
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/php:3.0.3-8 (or 3.0.3-8-trixie, 3.0.3-8-bookworm )

However, we only do security patching on the latest non-breaking, in support versions of images (e.g. 3-8). You may want to run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade in your Dockerfile if you lock to a more specific version to at least pick up OS security updates.

See history for information on the contents of each version and here for a complete list of available tags.

Alternatively, you can use the contents of .devcontainer to fully customize your container's contents or to build it for a container host architecture not supported by the image.

Installing Node.js

Given JavaScript front-end web client code written for use in conjunction with a PHP back-end often requires the use of Node.js-based utilities to build, this container also includes nvm so that you can easily install Node.js.

Also, you can use a Node feature to install any version of Node by adding the following to devcontainer.json:

{
  "features": {
    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/node:1": {
      "version": "latest"
    }
  }
}

Starting / stopping Apache

This dev container includes Apache in addition to the PHP CLI. While you can use PHP's built in CLI (e.g. php -S 0.0.0.0:8080), you can start Apache by running:

apache2ctl start

Apache will be available on port 8080.

If you want to wire in something directly from your source code into the www folder, you can add a symlink as follows to postCreateCommand:

"postCreateCommand": "sudo chmod a+x \"$(pwd)\" && sudo rm -rf /var/www/html && sudo ln -s \"$(pwd)\" /var/www/html"

...or execute this from a terminal window once the container is up:

sudo chmod a+x "$(pwd)" && sudo rm -rf /var/www/html && sudo ln -s "$(pwd)" /var/www/html

License

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.