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By installing this composer package into your laravel application, this enables the php artisan dax:install command, which creates a docker-compose.yml and a daxenv.sh file into your laravel root directory. Then you can run docker compose up -d and you have a laravel environment with a database.

Requirements

1. Must have docker installed
2. Must have docker-compose installed

Installation

1. Install using composer by running:

composer require daxter1987/laravel-env

2. Once installed run the command

php artisan dax:install

This creates 2 files:

1. docker-compose.yml: compose file with 2 containers
   1. Ubuntu image with nginx and Php 7.3
   2. Database image
2. daxenv.sh: file with useful shortcuts to run your environment

This also checks the .gitignore in your laravel project and adds the line /db if it doesn't exist. This is the folder where docker will store your local database container volume.

3. [Optional but recommended] Give the daxenv.sh execute permissions

If you want to use the shortcuts give the daxenv.sh file executing permissions by running the command:

sudo chmod 777 daxenv.sh

4. Configure database

The database connection credentials can be found in your newly created docker-compose.yml file. Make sure the database connection is properly configured either in your .env file or your config/database.php file.

MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
MYSQL_DATABASE: db
MYSQL_USER: root
MYSQL_PASSWORD: root

Usage

With shortcuts

To start the environment run

./daxenv.sh up

To stop the environment

./daxenv.sh down

To ssh into the laravel container

./daxenv.sh ssh

Without shortcuts

To start the environment run

docker-compose up -d

To stop the environment

docker-compose down

To ssh into the laravel container run docker container ls to get the name of the container, then replace the container name for CONTAINER_NAME in the command below

docker exec -it CONTAINER_NAME ssh

xdebug and PHPStorm

Setup

The container comes with xdebug installed (if you run phpinfo() you would see the configuration). To use it, set up PHPStorm:

1. Go to Languages and Frameworks > PHP > Servers and set

   • Name: Name of project
   • Host: localhost
   • Port: 8080
   • Debugger Xdebug
   • Use path mappings = true
   • Set Absolute path on server /var/www/html

2. Go to "Add Configurations"

   • Click +
   • Select PHP remote Debug template
     • Name: Name of project
     • Server: previously created server
     • IDE key: PHPSTORM
   • Click Apply

Run

• Click on the Bug Icon
• Send a GET request with

?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=PHPSTORM

• Send a post request with XDEBUG_SESSION_START=PHPSTORM as a param