After several months of development, contributions from opensource community and collaboration with big commercial users, Phalanger is getting bigger. Today we’ve released package of Phalanger, containing many new extensions and latest integration for Visual Studio. Continue reading
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Announcing WP.NET
Phalanger was capable of compiling WordPress for quite a long time, but this support was always targeted at developer audience. Experienced developers could compile WordPress and run it on their servers. However, we noticed that the combination is interesting not only to developers, but also to end users. Some of WordPress users want to run it on .NET or on Mono. Mainly for performance reasons, but some of them also because they already have other stuff running on .NET. The problem was it is quite a tough job to install Phalanger, configure, compile… don’t mentioning that on shared hosting it can be a problem to install anything.
Phalanger 3.0 updates for March 2012
On February 2012, Phalanger – the PHP compiler for .NET – got a lot of new features, fixes and optimizations. You can see the full list of changes (still growing) at phalanger.codeplex.com. The most noticeable change is the performance of accessing PHP arrays and overall performance compared to previous versions and standard PHP itself!
Writing compiled PHP extensions in PHP
PHP offers a lot of various extensions which add additional library functions, classes, constants and other constructs. Common extensions include for example php_mysql and php_iconv. Since extensions are implemented in C language, the performance is great. It also allows programmers to use other native libraries that are not available in PHP. However there is one big disadvantage; writing such extensions is not easy. C code is harder to maintain, it requires learning lower-level language and it is easier to make mistakes that lead to program failures that are hard to handle.
WordPress on .NET with SQL Server is Possimpible using Phalanger 3.0
In a recent scenario I wanted to run WordPress as a subdirectory of a .NET application. I also wanted to avoid installing PHP and MySql on the Windows server. Impossible? Apparently not! (I’ll get to the word Possimpible a bit later).
I already have IIS and SQL Server setup, so I want to utilize those with WordPress. To do this I installed a pre-compiled version of WordPress, using Phalanger, as well as a simple WordPress plugin to avoid having to install MySql. Here is what I did…
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Phalanger riding Mono
Phalanger is a complete reimplementation of PHP, written in the C# language. It was always being developed with the Mono platform in mind. This means you can compile and run PHP application on Linux web servers using Mono. Since Phalanger 3.0, this become more official, periodically tested and maintained. Continue reading
.NET interoperability overview of Phalanger 3.0
The main goal of Phalanger is to provide fast and easy means for PHP and .NET languages to interoperate with each other. When using Phalanger, PHP becomes a .NET language, but it’s still a dynamic language. That means that, in order to communicate with strongly typed languages as C#, we need more sofisticated architecture. This comes with DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) and dynamic keyword in C#. Continue reading
Passing .NET delegates into PHP
Phalanger is the only solution allowing to seamlessly interoperate between PHP and .NET world. It allows to use e.g. .NET generics, namespaces, properties, method overloads, global variables, constants and .NET delegates in both worlds. In this post I will show how to pass delegates from C# into PHP, and how to use them in PHP.
Using C# in App_Code from PHP scripts
Phalanger 3.0 brings several cool and useful features, making interoperability between C# and PHP even easier. In this post, I will show one of them. Continue reading
PHP, Global.asax and Output caching
Global.asax file gives web developers great posibilities of handling the life-cycle of their web app. It is a common practice to take advantage of this file in ASP.NET applications. Now you can make use of it in a PHP web application too.