Set up a local development environment for Temporal and PHP
To follow the PHP SDK tutorials and build your own Temporal applications with PHP, you'll need the PHP SDK, the RoadRunner application server, and a Temporal development server.
Install the PHP SDK
Install the PHP SDK using Composer:
composer require temporal/sdk
Download RoadRunner
See the RoadRunner README file for installation instructions.
Next, you'll configure a local Temporal cluster for development.
Set up a Temporal development cluster
Download and install the Temporal development cluster locally using Docker Compose. You'll run this server in the background while you develop your applications.
You must have Docker and Docker Compose installed.
Then clone the temporalio/docker-compose repository and run docker-compose up from the root of that repo:
git clone https://github.com/temporalio/docker-compose.git
Switch to the directory:
cd docker-compose
Then run docker compose to download the various container images and start the development cluster:
docker-compose up
When the Temporal Cluster is running, the Temporal Web UI becomes available in your browser. Visit localhost:8080
Review other methods in the Run a dev Cluster section in Temporal's documentation.
Once you have everything installed, you're ready to build apps with Temporal on your local machine.