Instant PHP and XDebug on Docker

A while back I wrote a little helper script I could stick in my Linux shell which will just spin up whatever directory I'm in as an Apache server running PHP and XDebug, with a self-signed TLS certificate.

It's very useful when the built-in PHP server (php -S) just isn't enough, or I want to run a specific version of PHP.

It works like this:

cd /my/php/project/
php_here 8.1

And that's it, I can go hit up https://localhost:4430 or http://localhost:8080 and whatever's in my current directory is mounted inside Apache.

Anyway, just thought I'd share 🙂 in case anyone else finds it useful. You can find the tool here:

https://github.com/dwgebler/php_docker_helper


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