Self hosting Docker PHP setup for Laravel help

Been learning Laravel on and off for the past year. I haven’t built a production app yet, but I’ve been really interested in setting up a docker Compose setup to run Laravel on a VPS. I know there are hold are alternatives like Laravel Forge, Envy, Cloud, or Ploy.io or Server Avatar or Coolify or Vito Deploy, but I want to learn the hard way first.

Laravel is a breath of fresh air with its batteries-included approach, but I’ll be honest, it’s definitely not as straightforward to get running compared to what I’m used to with node and svelteKit. With those, I just build the app using a node docker image, copy it into the container, throw in a Caddy container, and it's good to go.

PHP, on the other hand, comes with a bunch of Linux dependencies and PHP-extensions etc etc, and it’s not always obvious which ones are needed.

To help myself learn, I created a small example repo with a dummy Laravel app and Docker setup. It runs the whole stack entirely in Docker, using separate containers for:

\- Postgres
\- Caddy
\- Horizon
\- Redis
\- (mailpit and adminer just for testing)

Anyone with experience, got advice?

Here is a link to the public repo I made to figure it out and learn alone the way:

Maxiviper117/example-laravel12-docker

welcome to post issues on it.

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The Different Sampling Options Laravel Nightwatch Has
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The pipe operator in PHP 8.5
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PHP 8.5 is getting a new pipe operator, I'm confident many Laravel devs will love it!
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New in PHP 8.5: Marking Return Values as Important
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Packagist.org shutdown of Composer 1.x support postponed to September 1st, 2025
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Introducing Laritor — performance monitoring and observability tool for Laravel apps
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Self-Serving Symfony Projects using ReactPHP Bundle
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Exploring Coroutines in PHP | doeken.org
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FrankenPHP on Laradock - Sharing Production Configuration

Doing a quick project, so need to know if we you have any recommendations on what I can improve to configure FrankenPHP to work with Laradock.
I created a derived project from Laradock.
I cannot create the Caddyfile that works with all static content and LetsEncrypt Certificate. Any help will be appreciated. Here is the project repo: Project Repo - Laradock + FrankenPHP + Caddy

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Stop Ignoring Important Returns with PHP 8.5’s #[\NoDiscard] Attribute
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Ai Bundle

A while ago I started creating a Bundle helping me to integrate LLMs into my Symfony applications. Its supports calling the most popular providers like OpenAi, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, DeepSeek, Ollama with a unified interface. It also supports with building prompts, tool calling, returning structured data from the LLM and a basic chat persistence.
Lately I also added tool calling via MCP (stdio and HTTP) and providing MCP tools (via. HTTP).

I know, I’m not the only one with this kinds of bundle, but maybe someone finds it useful:
https://github.com/johannes85/AiBundle

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Function for my php chat that seems impossible to find

Guys good evening! I'm having a problem finding a function that helps me save a series of images in an ever-changing folder on my computer created through variables. It seems impossible in Chrome now due to harmful privacy policies. I also tried creating extensions but I just can't. It seems like all my attempts are met with the impossibility of achieving it. Obviously when the site is in localhost I can perfectly transfer the photos wherever I want.. help... thank you very much!!!!

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A Week of Symfony #966 (June 30 – July 6, 2025)
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Doctrine ORM 3.4.0 released with Native Lazy Objects and Property hooks support
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Weekly Ask Anything Thread

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Weekly help thread

Hey there!

This subreddit isn't meant for help threads, though there's one exception to the rule: in this thread you can ask anything you want PHP related, someone will probably be able to help you out!

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PHP CS Fixer now has PHP 8.4 support
https://github.com/PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer/releases/tag/v3.80.0

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Built a simple noise library in pure PHP - looking for feedback

Hello,

I've created a small library for generating noise in PHP.
The library is based on "PHP-GLFW" and its C++ implementation, but it's written entirely in pure PHP.

Initially, I updated the "https://github.com/A1essandro/perlin-noise-generator" library, which seems abandoned.

I later decided to build my own version to avoid relying on "PHP-GLFW", since it requires installation just to access a few functions.

The library: https://github.com/Cryde/noise-functions
It's still a work in progress - feel free to share your feedback or suggestions!

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