The php cartridge provides PHP on OpenShift.

php/                   Externally exposed PHP code goes here
libs/                  Additional libraries
misc/                  For PHP code that should not be accessible by end users
deplist.txt            List of pears to install
.openshift/            Location for OpenShift specific files
  action_hooks/        See the Action Hooks documentation [1]
  markers/             See the Markers section [2]

[1] Action Hooks documentation [2] Markers

OpenShift will look for the php and libs directories when serving your application. index.php will handle requests to the root URL of your application. You can create new directories as needed.

Note: Every time you push, everything in your remote repo dir is recreated. Please store long term items (like an sqlite database) in the OpenShift data directory, which will persist between pushes of your repo. The OpenShift data directory is accessible relative to the remote repo directory (../data) or via an environment variable OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR.

For more information about environment variables, consult the OpenShift Application Author Guide.

A list of pears to install, line by line on the server. This will happen when the user git pushes.

Adding marker files to .openshift/markers will have the following effects:

force_clean_build     Will remove all previous perl deps and start installing
                      required deps from scratch

hot_deploy            Will prevent the apache process from being restarted during
                      build/deployment

disable_auto_scaling  Will prevent scalable applications from scaling up 
                      or down according to application load.