I use a base-alpine-php image to build micro-service. For most of my use cases, I am going to install the following packages, if I really need them:
optional, only if I need to read/parse XML documents
- php8-xml
- php8-xmlwriter
- php8-simplexml
optional, only if I need serve the application via FastCGI
- php8-fpm
- php8-session
optional, only if I need the communication with my favorite PostgreSQL
- php8-pdo
- php8-pdo_pgsql
- php8-pgsql
optional, only if I need debug the complex PHP project
- php8-xdebug
optional, only if I need compress the documents.
- php8-zlib
- php8-phar
| Package | Description | significance |
|---|---|---|
| git |
git is required to install certain packages from source code |
✅ must |
| make |
make is required to build certain packages from source code |
✅ must |
| nano |
nano alternative lightweight editor in CLI |
optional |
| htop | a handy command-line tool that displays running processes on a Linux system in real-time | optional |
| curl |
curl is required to download certain packages |
✅ must |
| openRC |
OpenRC is the init system used in alpine. The init system manages the services, startup and shutdown of the system. |
✅ must |
| nginx |
Nginx (engine x) is an HTTP and reverse proxy server |
optional |
php8 |
PHP engine version 8 | ✅ must |
| php8-apcu |
APCu is an in-memory key-value store for PHP. APC provides both opcode caching (opcache) and object caching. |
✅ must |
| php8-ctype | this extension checks whether a character or string falls into a certain character class according to the current locale | ✅ must |
| php8-curl | this extension supports PHP to download data using curl. | ✅ must |
| php8-posix | This module contains an interface to those functions defined in the IEEE 1003.1 (POSIX.1) standards document which are not accessible through other means. | ✅ must |
| php8-tokenizer | The tokenizer functions provide an interface to the PHP tokenizer embedded in the Zend Engine. | ✅ must |
| php8-iconv |
iconv converts a string from one character encoding to another |
✅ must |
| php8-intl | It enables PHP programmers to perform UCA-conformant collation and date/time/number/currency formatting in their scripts. | ✅ must |
| php8-json | PHP has these built-in functions to encode and decode JSON data | ✅ must |
| php8-mbstring | Mbstring is an extension of php used to manage non-ASCII strings. It is non-default and need to be enabled manually. | ✅ must |
| php8-opcache | Enables the opcode cache for the CLI version of PHP | ✅ must |
| php8-openssl | This extension binds functions of OpenSSL library for symmetric and asymmetric encryption and decryption. | ✅ must |
| php8-pcntl | Process Control support in PHP implements the Unix style of process creation, program execution, signal handling and process termination. | ✅ must |
| php8-dom | The built-in DOM parser makes it possible to process XML documents in PHP. | optional |
| php8-xml | XML parser for PHP | optional |
| php8-xmlwriter | XML writer for PHP | optional |
| php8-fileinfo | FileInfo functions module can guess a content type and encoding of a file | optional |
| php8-fpm | FastCGI Process Manager is a primary PHP FastCGI implementation containing some features (mostly) useful for heavy-loaded sites. | optional |
| php8-pdo | PHP PDO is a database access layer that provides a uniform interface for working with multiple databases | optional |
| php8-phar |
phar is a very simple program for creating phar files with CLI |
optional |
| php8-pdo_pgsql | PDO_PGSQL is a driver that implements the PHP Data Objects (PDO) interface to enable access from PHP to PostgreSQL databases. | optional |
| php8-pgsql | a PostgreSQL module for PHP engine | optional |
| php8-xdebug | Xdebug module for PHP | optional |
| php8-zlib | This module enables you to transparently read and write gzip (.gz) compressed files | optional |
| php8-session | The session-support in PHP consists of a way to preserve certain data across subsequent accesses. | optional |
| php8-simplexml | a very robust SimpleXML parser | optional |
| php8-soap | The SOAP extension can be used to write SOAP Servers and Clients. It supports subsets of » SOAP 1.1, » SOAP 1.2 and » WSDL 1.1 specifications | optional |
Top comments (6)
Hey! Great list, thanks!!
As an addition, php8-soap if you need to connect to soap services
thx, add php8-soap to the list.
Thanks for the list, I use github.com/mlocati/docker-php-exte... for extensions
Nice project. I starred it. Thx for sharing. The purpose to create this check list for myself, is to remind me, start always with the minimal php image and install only the extension which is necessary for current product.
I am a minimalist :)
Hi Dennis, Can share how to use this lib. I'm using it in my dockerfile but it giving me error
docker-php-ext-install: not foundThis occurs in when I inherit
FROM alpine:3.11Thanks
Thanks for sharing these PHP extensions, very nice. These are very useful in PHP development projects.