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---
title: Containerize a PHP application
linkTitle: Containerize your app
weight: 10
keywords: php, containerize, initialize, apache, composer
description: Learn how to containerize a PHP application.
aliases:
- /language/php/containerize/
---
## Prerequisites
* You have installed the latest version of [Docker
Desktop](/get-started/get-docker.md).
* You have a [git client](https://git-scm.com/downloads). The examples in this
section use a command-line based git client, but you can use any client.
## Overview
This section walks you through containerizing and running a PHP
application.
## Get the sample applications
In this guide, you will use a pre-built PHP application. The application uses Composer for library dependency management. You'll serve the application via an Apache web server.
Open a terminal, change directory to a directory that you want to work in, and
run the following command to clone the repository.
```console
$ git clone https://github.com/docker/docker-php-sample
```
The sample application is a basic hello world application and an application that increments a counter in a database. In addition, the application uses PHPUnit for testing.
## Initialize Docker assets
Now that you have an application, you can use `docker init` to create the
necessary Docker assets to containerize your application. Inside the
`docker-php-sample` directory, run the `docker init` command in a terminal.
`docker init` provides some default configuration, but you'll need to answer a
few questions about your application. For example, this application uses PHP
version 8.2. Refer to the following `docker init` example and use the same
answers for your prompts.
```console
$ docker init
Welcome to the Docker Init CLI!
This utility will walk you through creating the following files with sensible defaults for your project:
- .dockerignore
- Dockerfile
- compose.yaml
- README.Docker.md
Let's get started!
? What application platform does your project use? PHP with Apache
? What version of PHP do you want to use? 8.2
? What's the relative directory (with a leading .) for your app? ./src
? What local port do you want to use to access your server? 9000
```
You should now have the following contents in your `docker-php-sample`
directory.
```text
├── docker-php-sample/
│ ├── .git/
│ ├── src/
│ ├── tests/
│ ├── .dockerignore
│ ├── .gitignore
│ ├── compose.yaml
│ ├── composer.json
│ ├── composer.lock
│ ├── Dockerfile
│ ├── README.Docker.md
│ └── README.md
```
To learn more about the files that `docker init` added, see the following:
- [Dockerfile](/reference/dockerfile.md)
- [.dockerignore](/reference/dockerfile.md#dockerignore-file)
- [compose.yaml](/reference/compose-file/_index.md)
## Run the application
Inside the `docker-php-sample` directory, run the following command in a
terminal.
```console
$ docker compose up --build
```
Open a browser and view the application at [http://localhost:9000/hello.php](http://localhost:9000/hello.php). You should see a simple hello world application.
In the terminal, press `ctrl`+`c` to stop the application.
### Run the application in the background
You can run the application detached from the terminal by adding the `-d`
option. Inside the `docker-php-sample` directory, run the following command
in a terminal.
```console
$ docker compose up --build -d
```
Open a browser and view the application at [http://localhost:9000/hello.php](http://localhost:9000/hello.php). You should see a simple hello world application.
In the terminal, run the following command to stop the application.
```console
$ docker compose down
```
For more information about Compose commands, see the [Compose CLI
reference](/reference/cli/docker/compose/_index.md).
## Summary
In this section, you learned how you can containerize and run a simple PHP
application using Docker.
Related information:
- [docker init reference](/reference/cli/docker/init.md)
## Next steps
In the next section, you'll learn how you can develop your application using
Docker containers.
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