Dockerize your LAMP Application in 3 mins

What is a LAMP Application?

LAMP is an acronym for one of the most common software stacks for building web applications.

The acronym stands for:

L – Linux

A – Apache

M – MySQL

P – PHP/Perl/Python

In this article I will build and Dockerize a basic LAMP application.

My LAMP Application

I built a skeleton LAMP application with the following index.php file:

<?php
$db = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost', 'root', null);

function getOSInformation()
 {
     if (false == function_exists("shell_exec") || false == is_readable("/etc/os-release")) {
         return null;
     }

      $os         = shell_exec('cat /etc/os-release');
     $listIds    = preg_match_all('/.*=/', $os, $matchListIds);
     $listIds    = $matchListIds[0];

      $listVal    = preg_match_all('/=.*/', $os, $matchListVal);
     $listVal    = $matchListVal[0];

      array_walk($listIds, function(&$v, $k){
         $v = strtolower(str_replace('=', '', $v));
     });

      array_walk($listVal, function(&$v, $k){
         $v = preg_replace('/=|"/', '', $v);
     });

      return array_combine($listIds, $listVal);
 }
$osInfo = getOSInformation();
?>
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