WHY

This is how I feel a good PHP web environment should be setup. It comes from various tutorials I've read, as well as just working with PHP for a few years.

Each container is divided into a service:i.e. it does one thing.

COMPOSER

composer is installed via a composer container. So, all composer commands are run via the command docker compose run php_composer composer require {package}

E.G. docker compose run php_composer composer require INSERT_PACKAGE_HERE

AUTO LOADING

You'll also need to run docker compose run php_composer composer dump-autoload

DOCKER EXEC

Connect to the PHP-FPM container

docker exec -it utmsf-php-fpm-1 bash

DOCKER RESTART

Need to restart lighttpd?

docker restart lighttpd_dev