Phalcon PHP Framework

Phalcon PHP is a web framework delivered as a C extension providing high performance and lower resource consumption.

Get Started

Phalcon PHP is written in C with platform independence in mind. As a result, Phalcon PHP is available on Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, You can either download a binary package for the system of your choice or build it from sources.

Windows

For use phalcon on windows you only should to download a DLL library (http://phalconphp.com/download). Edit your php.ini file and then add:

 extension=php_phalcon.dll

Finally restart your webserver.

Linux/Unix/Mac

On a Unix based platform you can easily compile and install the extension from source code.

Requirements

We need some packages previously installed.

PHP 5.x development resources
GCC compiler

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install php5-devel php5-mysql gcc make

Suse:

yast2 -i php5-pear php5-dev libmysqlclient gcc make autoconf2.13

Compilation

Follow these instructions to generate a binary extension for your platform:

 # git clone git://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon.git
 # cd cphalcon/release
 # export CFLAGS="-O2 -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks"
 # phpize
 # ./configure --enable-phalcon
 # make
 # sudo make install

Add extension to your php.ini

 extension=phalcon.so

Finally restart the webserver

Current Build Status

Phalcon PHP Framework is built under Travis CI service. Every commit pushed up to this repository will queue a build into the continuos integration service and will run all phpunit tests to ensure that everything is going well and the project is stable. The current build status is:

License

Phalcon is open-sourced software licensed under the New BSD License. See the docs/LICENSE.txt file.

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