Phalcon PHP is a web framework delivered as a C extension providing high performance and lower resource consumption.
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.
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.
On a Unix based platform you can easily compile and install the extension from sources.
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
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 extension to your php.ini
extension=phalcon.so
Finally restart the webserver
Phalcon PHP 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:
Phalcon is open-sourced software licensed under the New BSD License. See the docs/LICENSE.txt file for more information.