The latest articles on DEV Community by Manishkumar Prajapati (@manish_prajapati). https://dev.to/manish_prajapati https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3717511%2F34992019-15b8-4e74-8f51-c67786f60795.jpg https://dev.to/manish_prajapati en Manishkumar Prajapati Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:40:09 +0000 https://dev.to/manish_prajapati/tired-of-installing-php-composer-mysql-for-every-project-i-built-phpbox-460e https://dev.to/manish_prajapati/tired-of-installing-php-composer-mysql-for-every-project-i-built-phpbox-460e <p>🚀 After weeks of planning, architecture design, and development, I'm excited to introduce <strong>PHPBox</strong>!</p> <p>A universal PHP development environment manager that lets you create and run PHP applications without installing:</p> <p>❌ PHP<br> ❌ Composer<br> ❌ Apache<br> ❌ Nginx<br> ❌ MySQL<br> ❌ MariaDB<br> ❌ XAMPP / WAMP / MAMP / Laragon</p> <p>The only requirement:</p> <p>✅ Docker</p> <h3> What can PHPBox do? </h3> <p>🔹 Create new projects<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code>phpbox create laravel blog phpbox create wordpress website phpbox create symfony crm phpbox create yii portal phpbox create cakephp erp phpbox create codeigniter inventory </code></pre> </div> <p>🔹 Run existing projects<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code>git clone project <span class="nb">cd </span>project phpbox init phpbox start </code></pre> </div> <p>🔹 Auto-detect frameworks</p> <ul> <li>Laravel</li> <li>Symfony</li> <li>CodeIgniter</li> <li>CakePHP</li> <li>Yii</li> <li>WordPress</li> <li>Drupal</li> <li>Magento</li> <li>Joomla</li> <li>Core PHP</li> </ul> <p>🔹 Manage development environments</p> <ul> <li>PHP Version Switching</li> <li>Database Management</li> <li>Composer Integration</li> <li>phpMyAdmin</li> <li>Redis</li> <li>Mailpit</li> <li>SSL Support</li> <li>Docker-based Isolation</li> </ul> <h3> Why I built this? </h3> <p>As a PHP developer, I was tired of spending time configuring environments every time I switched projects.</p> <p>I wanted a tool where developers could simply:<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code>phpbox start </code></pre> </div> <p>and start coding immediately.</p> <p>No setup headaches.<br> No dependency conflicts.<br> No "works on my machine" issues.</p> <h3> Tech Stack </h3> <ul> <li>Python</li> <li>Docker</li> <li>Docker Compose</li> <li>Typer</li> <li>Rich</li> <li>Jinja2</li> <li>YAML</li> </ul> <p>This is just the beginning. My vision is to make PHPBox the "npm experience for PHP developers."</p> <p>⭐ GitHub:<br> <a href="https://github.com/manishkumar1601/phpbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/manishkumar1601/phpbox/</a></p> <p>I'd love feedback from the PHP, Laravel, WordPress, Symfony, and open-source communities.</p> webdev programming opensource php