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Writing compiled PHP extensions in PHP

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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.

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WordPress on .NET with SQL Server is Possimpible using Phalanger 3.0

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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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.NET interoperability overview of Phalanger 3.0

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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 →

“dynamic” keyword and PHP objects

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We’ve already demonstrated, how to use PHP scripts from within a .NET application using Phalanger. For reference you can take a look at PHP as a scripting language for C# article or Standard mode interoperability tutorial. In this way we can take an existing PHP web or a library, load them into C# context and reuse their functions, classes, constants or global variables. In addition we can even define new functions and classes in C# and inject them into PHP, so the code in PHP seamlessly uses these declarations as they would be declared in PHP too.

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