Running PHP and Composer in OpenVSCode

[Verhoeckx]

Hello OpenVSCode developers,

Good news: I have OpenVScode with a reverse proxy (for SSL) running on RHEL 9!
Beside that, I also have a a complete (L)AMP stack running with containers!

I would like to develop a website with the PHP framework Laravel in OpenVSCode.
Laravel uses Composer and various other PHP commands to make developing PHP websites easier.

Is there away to add PHP and Composer to OpenVSCode, so that I will be able to run to those commands from within OpenVSCode? I don't mean to add PHP to run the website, but to add php (and Composer) to run the various commands.

Is this possible and if so, how?

When I added RUN apt-get install PHP to the Dockerfile I got the error that the packages PHP doesn't exist.
Maybe use a different base image?

When my blog about running OpenVSCode on RHEL is finished, I will post it here!

Yours sincerely,

Jeroen

[Verhoeckx]

To answer my own question, below is how you can install PHP inside the OpenVSCode container.

FROM gitpod/openvscode-server:latest

USER root

RUN apt-get -y update
RUN apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests php8.1
RUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

USER openvscode-server

ENTRYPOINT [ "/bin/sh", "-c", "exec ${OPENVSCODE_SERVER_ROOT}/bin/openvscode-server --host 0.0.0.0 --connection-token [password] \"${@}\"", "--" ]

Replace [password] with your password.