Josh Freeman

San Antonio Web Development Group20 March 2014

What is a Framework?

● Web Development Library

● Application Skeleton

● Proven Functionality

● Hopes and Dreams of a Developer

The Problem with Frameworks

● Speed

● Complexity

● Resources

PHP as an Interpreted Language

➔ Receive Request (from Apache/Nginx)

➔ Read file from HHD/SSD

➔ Parse file

➔ Compile into OpCodes

➔ Execute through Zend Engine

➔ Render Output

Davey Shafik: PHP Performance I: Everything You Need to Know about OpCode Caches

Back to the Problem with Frameworks

● Framework design requires many files

● PHP lifecycle runs for every file called during runtime

(without caching)

● Framework load happens for EVERY request

Phalcon to the Rescue!

What is Phalcon?

MVC Framework

SOLID Design

C Extension

Awesome

Benchmarks

Operating System: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4

Web Server: Apache httpd 2.2.22

PHP: 5.3.15

CPU: 2.04 Ghz Intel Core i5

Main Memory: 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Hard Drive: 500GB SATA Disk

BenchmarksFile Includes

BenchmarksMemory Consumption

BenchmarksResponse Time

BenchmarksResponse Time

Do I Need to Know C?

NO

Do I Need to Know PHP?

YES

OK, What Do I Start?

~$ sudo apt-get install php5-dev libpcre3-dev gcc make

~$ git clone git://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon.git

~$ cd cphalcon/build

~$ sudo ./install

OK, What's Next?

#Ubuntu: Add this line in your php.ini

extension=phalcon.so

The Good Ol' Restart

Restart your Web server

Now What?

READphalconphp.com

Demonstration

Feedback || Questions

Josh Freeman @jdfreeman11

github.com/jdfreeman

Roll the Credits

● Phalcon Development Team– phalconphp.com

● Davey Shafik– PHP Performance: Under The Hood

– PHP Performance I: Everything You Need to Know about OpCode Caches

● MemeGenerator/KnowYourMeme