How to get mailparse and other PHP extensions working?

[tomderoo]

Hello all

I need to collaborate on a web project that has the following required php extensions (excerpt from composer.json):

"ext-bcmath": "*", "ext-curl": "*", "ext-dom": "*", "ext-fileinfo": "*", "ext-intl": "*", "ext-json": "*", "ext-libxml": "*", "ext-mailparse": "*", "ext-mbstring": "*", "ext-mysqlnd": "*", "ext-pcntl": "*", "ext-pdo": "*", "ext-soap": "*", "ext-sodium": "*", "ext-zip": "*",

Some of these are not standard in the ddev webserver php, notably mailparse and some others. I tried adding php-mailparse to webimage_extra_packages, but this did nothing. I assumed it did not activate on compile/runtime, but I have no idea how to fix that. I tried adding a Dockerfile in the web-build folder that I copied from a colleague that uses standard docker (for a webdevops/php-apache-dev:8.1 image), but that errors on all kinds of commands.

Any suggestions on how to get those extensions working? Thanks in advance!

[rfay]

Not sure why you asked this twice (here and https://github.com/drud/ddev/discussions/4684) so we'll go with it here.

The docs are in https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/latest/users/extend/customizing-images/#adding-extra-debian-packages-with-webimage_extra_packages-and-dbimage_extra_packages

But you almost certainly need php<phpversion>-xxx. You'll find that most of what you need (like bcmath, curl, fileinfo, intl, json) are already in DDEV. ddev php -i will show you that.

To add mailparse:

webimage_extra_packages: [php8.1-mailparse]

Change the php version as needed.

[tomderoo]

Sorry about the double-post: internet went down at home, didn't see any response and couldn't reload the page.

Thanks for your answer. I already tried those docs, and as I mentioned I already tried adding mailparse through webimage_extra_packages. I got disheartened. But as per your answer I retried these things:

• [php-mailparse] for php versions 7.4 and 8.1 (just chose those as an experiment) => did not work (no errors, but also no mailparse active)
• [php8.1-mailparse] for php version 8.1 => did not work (error during ddev startup)
• BUT: [php7.4-mailparse] for php version 7.4 => works! I can see it enabled in ddev php -i | grep mailparse

I probably did some other thing wrong that made 8.1 error, I'm going to look into that later. Thanks for your help!

[rfay]

I know it's complicated sorting out the variety of debian packages.