Phalcon Framework ================= Phalcon is an open source web framework delivered as a C extension for the PHP language providing high performance and lower resource consumption. Get Started ----------- Phalcon is written in Zephir/C with platform independence in mind. As a result, Phalcon is available on Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X. You can either download a binary package for the system of your choice or build it from source. ### Windows To install Phalcon on Windows: 1. Download [Phalcon for Windows](http://phalconphp.com/en/download/windows) 2. Extract the DLL file and copy it to your PHP extensions directory 3. Edit your php.ini file and add this line: `extension=php_phalcon.dll` 4. Finally, restart your webserver **Hint:** To ensure that your Phalcon installation was successful, debug with `<?php phpinfo(); ?>` and search for 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 Prerequisite packages are: * PHP 5.4.x/5.5.x/5.6.x development resources * GCC compiler (Linux/Solaris) or Xcode (Mac) Ubuntu: ```bash sudo apt-get install php5-dev libpcre3-dev gcc make ``` Suse: ```bash sudo zypper install php5-devel gcc make ``` CentOS/Fedora/RHEL ```bash sudo yum install php-devel pcre-devel gcc make ``` Compilation ----------- Follow these instructions to generate a binary extension for your platform: ```bash git clone git://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon.git cd cphalcon/build sudo ./install ``` Add the extension to your php.ini: ```bash extension=phalcon.so ``` Finally, restart the webserver. External Links -------------- * [Documentation](http://docs.phalconphp.com/) * [Support](http://forum.phalconphp.com) * [Blog](http://blog.phalconphp.com) * [Zephir](http://zephir-lang.com/) * [Twitter](http://twitter.com/phalconphp) Current Build Status -------------------- Phalcon Framework is built under the 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: [](http://travis-ci.org/phalcon/cphalcon) Meet the Incubator ----------- Our community is developing amazing extra features for Phalcon every day via [Incubator](https://github.com/phalcon/incubator). There are resources to enhance your experience with the framework and that enlarge the main features. Just give it a try and help us improve Phalcon even more! License ------- Phalcon is open source software licensed under the New BSD License. See the docs/LICENSE.txt file for more