Tired of Installing PHP, Composer & MySQL for Every Project? I Built PHPBox

🚀 After weeks of planning, architecture design, and development, I'm excited to introduce PHPBox!

A universal PHP development environment manager that lets you create and run PHP applications without installing:

❌ PHP
❌ Composer
❌ Apache
❌ Nginx
❌ MySQL
❌ MariaDB
❌ XAMPP / WAMP / MAMP / Laragon

The only requirement:

✅ Docker

What can PHPBox do?

🔹 Create new projects

phpbox create laravel blog
phpbox create wordpress website
phpbox create symfony crm
phpbox create yii portal
phpbox create cakephp erp
phpbox create codeigniter inventory

🔹 Run existing projects

git clone project
cd project

phpbox init
phpbox start

🔹 Auto-detect frameworks

• Laravel
• Symfony
• CodeIgniter
• CakePHP
• Yii
• WordPress
• Drupal
• Magento
• Joomla
• Core PHP

🔹 Manage development environments

• PHP Version Switching
• Database Management
• Composer Integration
• phpMyAdmin
• Redis
• Mailpit
• SSL Support
• Docker-based Isolation

Why I built this?

As a PHP developer, I was tired of spending time configuring environments every time I switched projects.

I wanted a tool where developers could simply:

phpbox start

and start coding immediately.

No setup headaches.
No dependency conflicts.
No "works on my machine" issues.

Tech Stack

• Python
• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Typer
• Rich
• Jinja2
• YAML

This is just the beginning. My vision is to make PHPBox the "npm experience for PHP developers."

⭐ GitHub:
https://github.com/manishkumar1601/phpbox/

I'd love feedback from the PHP, Laravel, WordPress, Symfony, and open-source communities.