Set up PHP 7 development environment

Setup requirements

Install VirtualBox

• Goto https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and download Virtualbox binary based on your OS.
• Install Virtualbox for virtualization

Install Vagrant

• Goto https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html and download vagrant binary based on your OS.
• Install Vagrant from binary

Verify all requirements

Open the terminal and try this command to verify Virtualbox is ready.

$ Virtualbox -h

Open the terminal and try this command to verify Vagrant is ready.

$ vagrant --version

Pull PHP 7 box source code

Clone this repository from Github :

$ git clone https://github.com/khanhicetea/phpbox

Provision the box

$ cd phpbox
$ vagrant up

Note : First provision will take a long time to build the box (about 30-45 minutes). But next time you run the box, it only takes 2 mins.

Development guideline

SSH to the box

Run this command in phpbox folder

$ vagrant ssh

Point your virtualhosts to Box IP

Your PHPBox IP address is 192.168.67.101, you can change in Vagrantfile

Open /etc/hosts file in your PC to map virtualhosts IP to PHPBox

$ sudo vi /etc/hosts

Each line in this file will have format (IP HOSTNAME). Eg:

192.168.67.101 test.dev
192.168.67.101 php7iscool.dev

Folder structure

• conf : Configuration
  • modules.ini : PHP module configuration
  • nginx_default : Nginx default host
  • php-fpm.conf : PHP7-FPM configuration
  • vhosts_apache.conf : Apache virtualhosts (if you use Apache)
  • vhosts_nginx : Nginx virtualhosts
  • www.conf : PHP7-FPM worker configuration
• scripts : provision scripts
• www : Web root
  • default : document root of default host 192.168.67.101
  • test : document root of test host test.dev
• .gitignore : gitignore file
• Vagrantfile : Vagrantfile of PHPBox

Create a new virtualhost

• Duplicate a server section in vhosts_nginx or VirtualHost in vhosts_apache.conf
• Edit the server name and document root
• Pointing servername to PHPBox IP via hosts file
• Restart web server sudo service nginx restart or sudo service apache2 restart

Utils

Composer, Git, Docker is ready

This box included helpful tools like composer, git, docker, redis-server, htop, vim, screen and zsh.

PHPMyAdmin or Adminer

• Adminer (default) : http://192.168.67.101/adminer
• PHPMyAdmin : http://192.168.67.101/phpmyadmin

Services

• MySQL user : root / passwd
• Redis : localhost:6379

Installation config

You can open the scripts/provision/setup.sh to modify some variables to modify some packages.

Ref

• Cover image PHP7 : Yet to Release PHP 7 Expected Features and Advantages