symfony-docker VS aphiria

First, there is no "official" Symfony Docker image. You're probably referring to https://github.com/dunglas/symfony-docker, which - although being maintained by a core team member - is not an official image from the Symfony organization.

No, server setup is not my thing. I stick to official Docker image, works perfect.

I have an Symfony application running in docker container using dunglas/symfony-docker-Template. (https://github.com/dunglas/symfony-docker) This Template is currently using Caddy for managing ssl certificates and http & https connecetions.

Just thought I'd ask here for recommendations for any helpful base images or existing projects for reference. I'm not really a symfony/php person, so any advice other would be helpful too. I'm definitely looking at this symfony-docker project, but I might just end up using the official php 7.2 base image.

Here is the idea: let's say I have Symfony application using this image. But other people, non-tech ones, interested in this app would have to install Docker too even though they only want to run it and see it in browser.

As others mentionned, I can only suggest you to go with Symfony, it meets all your requirements. If you are looking for a docker config out of the box, this one is my favorite (done by one of main Symfony's maintainers) - https://github.com/dunglas/symfony-docker Very simple to install, use and deploy later.

I'm using the official docker install: https://github.com/dunglas/symfony-docker and I'm trying to install doctrine using symfony flex.

Official docker image, check for yourself.

I used combination nginx + caddy but I consider to drop nginx and leave Caddy because it's a reliable web server for production use. Also I found good github repo with docker config which makes it much easier to setup https://github.com/dunglas/symfony-docker

Aphiria: https://www.aphiria.com/

I’ve been wanting a project just like this so I can finally try Aphiria! Very well done project, definitely worth a look.

Aphiria is a fav of mine - lesser know but being a fresh take since PHP 8 it has some opportunities that older frameworks never did.

I haven't promoted it much because it's still in alpha testing, but my framework Aphiria.

Compare output from Laravel to a framework that's not bed-ridden with overuse of Reflection, like Aphiria and see the result for yourself.

One of the promising frameworks I noticed is https://www.aphiria.com/ in case someone is interested to try out something different, something that's not full of evangelists who are wolves in sheep clothing.

Those are some of the things I sought to solve with MixerAPI. This is another project which saw the same shortcomings as I did, https://www.aphiria.com/, I just didn't think it made sense to build a ground-up framework to solve the problem. Use something existing, build on top, and don't mess with existing workflows in the framework. Just augment them is how I feel about things at least.

Author of Aphiria here. The base controller just provides a few properties and helper methods. If that's too much coupling for you, it supports POPOs as controllers too.

I use them as a micro-optimization in my router. Whenever I find a potential matching route, I yield return it and check it against constraints, eg does the HTTP verb match. This way, I don't have to grab all potential route matches prior to checking constraints.