Phalcon Framework

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

Get Started

Phalcon is written in C with platform independence in mind. As a result, Phalcon 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, place it in your /php/ext folder and then append at the last line (or whatever line you wish) of your php.ini:

extension=php_phalcon.dll

Finally, just restart your webserver and voilà!

Hint: To ensure that your Phalcon's installation was successful, debug with <?php phpinfo(); ?> and search for the a section mentioning the Phalcon extension.

Linux/Unix/Mac

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

Requirements

We need some packages previously installed.

PHP 5.x development resources
GCC compiler

Ubuntu:

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

Suse:

yast2 -i php5-pear php5-devel 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/build
sudo ./install

Add the extension to your php.ini

extension=phalcon.so

Finally restart the webserver

External Links

Current Build Status

Phalcon Framework is built under Travis CI service. Every commit pushed to this repository will queue a build into the continuous 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:

Meet the Incubator

Our community is developing amazing extra features for Phalcon everyday via Incubator. There are resources to enhance your experience with the framework and that enlarge the main features.

Just give a try and help us improve more & more our PHP's stronghold.

License

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

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