This developer needed to turn back the clock in the PHP-FPM container, you will not believe what he did next! (#1675)

* Added documentation for installing libfaketime in the php-fpm container
* Enabled installing and using libfaketime system-wide inside the php-fpm container

DOCUMENTATION/content/documentation/index.md

@@ -1499,8 +1499,31 @@ e) set it to `true`
 3 - Set it to `true`
 <br>
 4 - Re-build the containers `docker-compose build php-fpm`
+<br>
+
+
 
 
+<br>
+<a name="Install-Faketime"></a>
+## Install libfaketime in the php-fpm container
+Libfaketime allows you to control the date and time that is returned from the operating system.
+It can be used by specifying a special string in the `PHP_FPM_FAKETIME` variable in the `.env` file.
+For example:
+`PHP_FPM_FAKETIME=-1d`
+will set the clock back 1 day. See (https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime) for more information.
+
+1 - Open the `.env` file
+<br>
+2 - Search for the `PHP_FPM_INSTALL_FAKETIME` argument under the PHP-FPM container
+<br>
+3 - Set it to `true`
+<br>
+4 - Search for the `PHP_FPM_FAKETIME` argument under the PHP-FPM container
+<br>
+5 - Set it to the desired string
+<br>
+6 - Re-build the containers `docker-compose build php-fpm`<br>
 
 
 

docker-compose.yml

@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ services:
           - INSTALL_IMAGE_OPTIMIZERS=${PHP_FPM_INSTALL_IMAGE_OPTIMIZERS}
           - INSTALL_IMAGEMAGICK=${PHP_FPM_INSTALL_IMAGEMAGICK}
           - INSTALL_CALENDAR=${PHP_FPM_INSTALL_CALENDAR}
+          - INSTALL_FAKETIME=${PHP_FPM_INSTALL_FAKETIME}
       volumes:
         - ./php-fpm/php${PHP_VERSION}.ini:/usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
         - ${APP_CODE_PATH_HOST}:${APP_CODE_PATH_CONTAINER}
@@ -154,6 +155,7 @@ services:
       environment:
         - PHP_IDE_CONFIG=${PHP_IDE_CONFIG}
         - DOCKER_HOST=tcp://docker-in-docker:2375
+        - FAKETIME=${PHP_FPM_FAKETIME}
       depends_on:
         - workspace
       networks:

env-example

@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ PHP_FPM_INSTALL_SWOOLE=false
 PHP_FPM_INSTALL_PG_CLIENT=false
 PHP_FPM_INSTALL_PCNTL=false
 PHP_FPM_INSTALL_CALENDAR=false
+PHP_FPM_INSTALL_FAKETIME=false
+PHP_FPM_FAKETIME=-0
 
 ### PHP_WORKER ############################################
 

php-fpm/Dockerfile

@@ -485,6 +485,18 @@ RUN if [ ${INSTALL_CALENDAR} = true ]; then \
     docker-php-ext-install calendar \
 ;fi
 
+###########################################################################
+# libfaketime:
+###########################################################################
+
+USER root
+
+ARG INSTALL_FAKETIME=false
+
+RUN if [ ${INSTALL_FAKETIME} = true ]; then \
+    apt-get install -y libfaketime \
+;fi
+
 ###########################################################################
 # Check PHP version:
 ###########################################################################
@@ -509,6 +521,12 @@ RUN apt-get clean && \
 
 RUN usermod -u 1000 www-data
 
+# Adding the faketime library to the preload file needs to be done last
+# otherwise it will preload it for all commands that follow in this file
+RUN if [ ${INSTALL_FAKETIME} = true ]; then \
+    echo "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/faketime/libfaketime.so.1" > /etc/ld.so.preload \
+;fi
+
 WORKDIR /var/www
 
 CMD ["php-fpm"]