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Zephir

Zephir - Ze(nd Engine) Ph(p) I(nt)r(mediate) - is a high level language that eases the creation and maintainability of extensions for PHP. Zephir extensions are exported to C code that can be compiled and optimized by major C compilers such as gcc/clang/vc++. Functionality is exposed to the PHP language.

Main features:

  • Both dynamic/static typing
  • Reduced execution overhead compared with full interpretation
  • Restricted procedural programming, promoting OOP
  • Memory safety
  • Ahead-of-time compiler

Compiler design goals:

  • Multi-pass compilation
  • Type speculation/inference
  • Allow runtime profile-guided optimizations, pseudo-constant propagation and indirect/virtual function inlining

Requirements

To compile zephir-parser:

  • json-c (Please install this one from Github)
  • re2c

To build the PHP extension:

  • g++ >= 4.4/clang++ >= 3.x/vc++ 9
  • gnu make 3.81 or later
  • php development headers and tools

Installation

Once you have the required packages installed, you can generate the parser as follows:

./install

Additional notes on Ubuntu

The following packages are needed in Ubuntu:

  • apt-get install re2c

Usage

Compile the extension:

./bin/zephir compile

Documentation & Blog

  • A preliminary documentation can be found here
  • Official Blog can be found here
  • Sublime/TextMate highlight-syntax bundle here

License

Zephir is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.

Donate & Sponsor

Zephir is available to the public without charge, under the permissive MIT License. Zephir is available to everyone freely on terms that allow both non-commercial and commercial activity. This license allows for academics, for-profit software developers, volunteers and enthusiasts alike to collaborate together to make a better software for everyone.

Donate allowing us to invest more time and resources to the project, ensuring it will be ready sooner and with loads of features.

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Current Build Status

Zephir 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:

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