How to install extension for php via docker-php-ext-install?

Question

In order to resolve an issue, I am now trying install the mysql pdo via

docker-php-ext-install

as pointed out in the README of the php imag

Answer 1

You can achieve this with only 3 short lines of code. Here is an example for PHP7.4-FPM (Check the attached github link for guidance on other image variants and versions)

Dockerfile:

FROM php:7.4-fpm

COPY --from=mlocati/php-extension-installer /usr/bin/install-php-extensions /usr/bin/

RUN install-php-extensions mysqli pdo_mysql

As of the posting of this response the plugin supports up to 80 PHP Extensions which I find it supper amazing. You can get more info on this github repository