Docker + PHP 8.1 + Xdebug 3 + MySQL 8 + Nginx 1.21 + Symfony Boilerplate 🐳

Description

This is a basic stack for create y running Symfony project into Docker containers. Here are the docker-compose built images:

nginx, acting as the webserver v1.21.
php, the PHP-FPM container with the 8.1 version of PHP. Xdebug is available by default.
mysql which is the MySQL database container with a MySQL 8.0 image.

Clone this repository
Go inside folder ./docker
Edit environment variables in .env file
1. The value of the variable NGINX_SERVER_NAME is the server_name used in NGINX.

Build/run containers.

docker-compose build
docker compose up -d

You should work inside the php container.
```
docker compose exec php bash
```

Check requirements for a Symfony application

symfony check:requirements

you will see the following output in the terminal

[OK]                                             
Your system is ready to run Symfony projects

Create a new Symfony project
```
symfony new .
```
You Symfony project will be installed in /app folder. Now you can access it from the browser through the domain that you have specified in the NGINX_SERVER_NAME variable of the .env file.

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Available by default. Configure /docker/php/xdebug.ini

In case you want to deactivate it:
```
xdebug.mode=off
```
In case you need debug only requests with IDE KEY: PHPSTORM from frontend in your browser:
```
xdebug.start_with_request = no
xdebug.idekey=PHPSTORM
```
In case you need debug any request to an api (by default):
```
xdebug.start_with_request = yes
```

Project (/var/www/)
├── docker
│   ├── mysql
│   ├── nginx
│   └── php
└── app
    └── .. all symfony content