An Internet of PHP

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  • RoadRunner

    🤯 High-performance PHP application server, process manager written in Go and powered with plugins

  • Don't follow any advice to use Apache as a reverse proxy, or bundle php with a classic web server.

    There are real application servers using an event loop by now, most notably Roadrunner (https://roadrunner.dev), FrankenPHP (https://frankenphp.dev), Laravel Octane (https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/octane#introduction), Swoole Bridge for Symfony (https://github.com/insidestyles/swoole-bridge-bundle).

    In general, you can do a lot with OpenSwoole or Roadrunner. They are vastly superior (in a container scenario) to any other suggestion in this thread!

  • php-docker

    Docker Official Image packaging for PHP

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

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

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  • supervisor

    Supervisor process control system for Unix (supervisord)

  • What I went with was having both a web server (Apache/Nginx) and PHP-FPM in the same container image, held together by Supervisor: http://supervisord.org/

    In my case, the Dockerfile looks a bit like the following:

      # Whatever base web server image you want, Debian/Ubuntu based here

  • swoole-bridge-bundle

    Symfony Swoole Bridge Bundle

  • Don't follow any advice to use Apache as a reverse proxy, or bundle php with a classic web server.

    There are real application servers using an event loop by now, most notably Roadrunner (https://roadrunner.dev), FrankenPHP (https://frankenphp.dev), Laravel Octane (https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/octane#introduction), Swoole Bridge for Symfony (https://github.com/insidestyles/swoole-bridge-bundle).

    In general, you can do a lot with OpenSwoole or Roadrunner. They are vastly superior (in a container scenario) to any other suggestion in this thread!

  • frankenphp

    🧟 The modern PHP app server

  • Don't follow any advice to use Apache as a reverse proxy, or bundle php with a classic web server.

    There are real application servers using an event loop by now, most notably Roadrunner (https://roadrunner.dev), FrankenPHP (https://frankenphp.dev), Laravel Octane (https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/octane#introduction), Swoole Bridge for Symfony (https://github.com/insidestyles/swoole-bridge-bundle).

    In general, you can do a lot with OpenSwoole or Roadrunner. They are vastly superior (in a container scenario) to any other suggestion in this thread!

  • Laravel

    The Laravel Framework.

  • https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/00894b89e42a9d707c...

    Even Tinker is a few lines of code to extend PsySH and credit is barely given.

    Taylor Otwell is a fiend for creating wrappers around solid open source libraries, using PHP magic and encouraging bad practices, all just to breed an ecosystem ultimately to land him a Lambo, fuelled by amazing open source foundations that have barely been contributed back to by him.

  • inertia

    Inertia.js lets you quickly build modern single-page React, Vue and Svelte apps using classic server-side routing and controllers.

  • [2] https://inertiajs.com/

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  • wappalyzer

    The last commit of Wappalyzer before it went private (by dochne)

  • I checked Wappalyzer's code (at least the last commit before it went private: https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer) and PHP gives more tells (https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer/blob/main/src/technolog...) than Python for example (https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer/blob/main/src/technolog...).

    Some technologies seem to give more tells than others. Which means some technologies could be way more invisible than others. I am not sure we can suppose the known and unknown technologies have the same ratio.

    I quickly checked some websites with BuiltWith and Wappalyzer and from my personal totally unscientific and small sample data, they seem to detect more easily PHP than other languages like Python.

    Again, I don't know. But I took 5% to be optimistic. It could be 30% or 50%. And then the whole picture changes.

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