symfony-docker VS php-docker

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

Yes, the apache[0] image will do what you want

[0] https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/1c4b255f3e5ab610c...

That's the first I've heard of it, and I like it! I can't tell you the number of trips to php.net to look at argument order for a function. Is it haystack/needle, or needle/haystack? Of course it could turn into the same thing w/ argument names (is it whole_name or full_name?), but I'm going to use it.

Prepare to spend a fair bit of time reading and going back to phptherightway.com and php.net. I've also found this Tutorial from Envato Tuts+ to be quite good.

All I want to do with php is to have a recurring navbar on a website. I don't know what to do next. So far I've tried php.net's manual, w3scchool's tutorial and the set up part of first five recommended php tutorials on youtube. I have also spent hours on stackoverflow, which got me even more confused. The more I read, the less nothing makes sense to me and I don't know where the problem is.

I tried looking at the upgrade from 7.4 to 8.0 docs on php.net but I don't see anything regarding any changes to this function. Any ideas?

Does anyone else have trouble getting into php.net without some human verification page popping up first?

I've gone to php.net probably thousands of times over 15 years and have never seen this. If I saw it, like this user did, I'd be curious.

I would but cannot access php.net because of blue hardware

Not necessarily, a docker image can build from source. In fact, the official PHP docker image is built from source. See https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/master/8.2/alpine3.18/cli/Dockerfile

. php.net is the official documentation