Docker Compose LAMP stack 1.8.0:

* Updated README, fixed issue with latest MySQL image.
* Added new ENV variables `LINES`, `COLUMNS` for PHP-FPM container.
* Fixed Dockerfile for LAMP build MySQL image.
* Added `htdocs/db.php` as example of connection to MySQL.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -43,3 +43,9 @@
 * Switched to docker-compose 3 version.
 * Added example of installing XHProf for PHP-7 and necessary utils.
 * Update docker-compose, some common typos and example of PHP-FPM-XHPROF container.
+
+## Docker Compose LAMP stack 1.7.0
+* Updated README, fixed issue with latest MySQL image.
+* Added new ENV variables `LINES`, `COLUMNS` for PHP-FPM container.
+* Fixed Dockerfile for LAMP build MySQL image.
+* Added db.php to test connection.

README.md

@@ -120,6 +120,11 @@ The custom PHP-FPM image sample is located in the directory - `docker/images/php
 
 For running multiple instances on your local machine, you can update the IP range or ports inside **docker-compose.yml**. For this, on your instance, change IPs to another range, e.g. from `172.55` to `172.54.*`. The same are for ports.
 
+### How connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL, other DBs.
+
+Check `htdocs/db.php` as example of connection to MySQL. However, the main difference is in the host, 
+you need to use service name as host.
+
 
 ## Documentation
 See READMEs for more details, like environment variables for images:

htdocs/db.php

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?php
+
+$servername = "mysql";
+$username = "testdrive";
+$password = "testdrive";
+
+try {
+    $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$servername;dbname=testdrive", $username, $password);
+    // set the PDO error mode to exception
+    $conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
+    echo "Connected successfully"; 
+}
+catch(PDOException $e) {
+    echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage();
+}