# Tags and `Dockerfile` links

- [`5.3.29-cli`, `5.3-cli` (*5.3/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/3904b176167a07c8828b9a1b5b9a3ea55bd9f21d/5.3/Dockerfile)
- [`5.3.29-apache`, `5.3-apache` (*5.3/apache/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/6b54c7fa3f42f0eaade30c1bbb05d5fc2c0b39c2/5.3/apache/Dockerfile)
- [`5.4.32-cli`, `5.4-cli` (*5.4/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/3904b176167a07c8828b9a1b5b9a3ea55bd9f21d/5.4/Dockerfile)
- [`5.4.32-apache`, `5.4-apache` (*5.4/apache/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/6b54c7fa3f42f0eaade30c1bbb05d5fc2c0b39c2/5.4/apache/Dockerfile)
- [`5.5.16-cli`, `5.5-cli` (*5.5/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/3904b176167a07c8828b9a1b5b9a3ea55bd9f21d/5.5/Dockerfile)
- [`5.5.16-apache`, `5.5-apache` (*5.5/apache/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/6b54c7fa3f42f0eaade30c1bbb05d5fc2c0b39c2/5.5/apache/Dockerfile)
- [`5.6.0-cli`, `5.6-cli`, `5-cli`, `latest` (*5.6/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/3904b176167a07c8828b9a1b5b9a3ea55bd9f21d/5.6/Dockerfile)
- [`5.6.0-apache`, `5.6-apache`, `5-apache`, `apache` (*5.6/apache/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/6b54c7fa3f42f0eaade30c1bbb05d5fc2c0b39c2/5.6/apache/Dockerfile)

# What is PHP?
PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. As of January 2013, PHP was installed on more than 240 million websites and 2.1 million web servers.

>[wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP)

# How to use this image.

## Commandline

In the case that you have a PHP project run through the command line interface, you can do the following.

### Create a `Dockerfile` in your php project.

    FROM php:5.6-cli
    COPY . /usr/src/myapp
    WORKDIR /usr/src/myapp
    CMD [ "php", "./your-script.php" ]

Then run the commands to build and run the docker image.

    docker build -t my-php-app .
    docker run -it --rm --name my-running-app my-php-app

### Run a single PHP script.

For many single file projects, it may not be convenient to write a `Dockerfile` for your project. In such cases, you can run a php script by using the php docker image directly.

    docker run -it --rm --name my-running-script -v "$(pwd)":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp php:5.6-cli php your-script.php

## With Apache

In the more common case, you will probably want to run PHP in conjunction with Apache httpd. Conveniently, there's a version of the php container that's packaged with the apache web server.

### Create a `Dockerfile` in your php project.

    FROM php:5.6-apache
    COPY . /var/www/html

Then run the commands to build and run the docker image.

    docker build -t my-php-app .
    docker run -it --rm --name my-running-app my-php-app

### Without a Dockerfile

If you don't want to include a `Dockerfile` in your project, then it is sufficient to do the following.

    docker run -it --rm --name my-apache-php-app -v "$(pwd)":/var/www/html php:5.6-apache

# User Feedback

## Issues

If you have any problems with, or questions about this image, please contact us
 through a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues) or via the IRC channel
`#docker-library` on [Freenode](https://freenode.net).

## Contributing

You are invited to contribute new features, fixes, or updates, large or small; we are
always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do our best to process them as fast as
we can.

Before you start to code, we recommend discussing your plans through a
[GitHub issue](https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues), especially for more ambitious contributions. This gives
other contributors a chance to point you in the right direction, give you feedback on
your design, and help you find out if someone else is working on the same thing.