Phalcon 3.0 & ZephirAndres GutierrezPhalcon

About me

● PHP Developer● More than 10.000 hours programming

A FRAMEWORK FORPHP

DELIVERED AS AN EXTENSION

Some time ago...

Phalcon 0.1.x/0.2.xA group of nerds trying to make a full stack C framework work for the first time

Year: 2011

Social Networks: 0Look everyone!, it’s a pointer

Let’s try to call a PHP function from C

Phalcon 0.3.0First public release

Basic functionality working

Released: 2012

Social Networks: 45

Phalcon 0.5.0Single-module apps, Dependency Injection, PHQL, Micro apps, CLI and more

Only MySQL/PostgreSQL databases were supported

Released: 2012

Social Networks: 400

Phalcon 0.6.0Volt template engine & MongoDB support

Released: 2013

Social Networks: 700

Phalcon 1.0.0Full MVC Applications (Single-Module, Multi-Module and Micro Applications)

ORM (Transactions, Behaviors, Relations, PHQL, Events, Validations, Hydration, Logging, Profiling, Sharding)

Annotations, escaping, encryption and more

Released: 2013

Social Networks: 2100

Phalcon 2.0Core was rewritten in Zephir

Full backwards compatibility with Phalcon 1.x

Released: 2014

Social Networks: 6700

Zephir

ZephirThe main goals of Zephir are:

● Static/Dynamic typing

● Automatic memory management

● Strict and explicit behavior over flexible and implicit behavior

● Produce object-oriented libraries that can be used in PHP

● Hide unnecessary complexity to developers

● Make the code more debuggable

● Produce exceptions in runtime instead of notices/warnings when possible

● Detect potentially slow or unreachable code and notify the developer about it

● Provide a very low learning curve without creating a new PHP/C implementation

Zephir

Zephir● Create extensions for PHP 5 and PHP 7● Create DLLs for Windows● Create Shared Objects (.so) for Linux/Unix● OSX support

NGINX: 9,000 req/s (serving a plain html file)

NGINX + PHP7: 5,000 req/s (serving a hello world)

NGINX + PHP7 + Phalcon: 2,500 req/s (serving a hello world from a controller)

NGINX + PHP7 + Phalcon + MySQL: 800 req/s (serving some data from the database)

Real performance best practices● Cache everything apc, redis, memcached

Real performance best practices● Scale your sessions up

Phalcon 3.0.0PHP7 support

Removed old APIs

LTS extended support

Released: 2016

Social Networks: 12,800

Gracias/Thanks!Questions?