Phalcon Framework: San Antonio Web Developers Group

Presentation by Josh Freeman at the San Antonio Web Developers Group Meetup on March 20, 2014.

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1. Josh Freeman San Antonio Web Development Group 20 March 2014
2. What is a Framework? • Web Development Library • Application Skeleton • Proven Functionality • Hopes and Dreams of a Developer
3. The Problem with Frameworks • Speed • Complexity • Resources
4. 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
5. 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
6. Phalcon to the Rescue!
7. What is Phalcon? MVC Framework SOLID Design C Extension Awesome
8. 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
9. Benchmarks File Includes
10. Benchmarks Memory Consumption
11. Benchmarks Response Time
12. Benchmarks Response Time
13. Do I Need to Know C? NO
14. Do I Need to Know PHP? YES
15. 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
16. OK, What's Next? #Ubuntu: Add this line in your php.ini extension=phalcon.so
17. The Good Ol' Restart Restart your Web server
18. Now What? READ phalconphp.com
19. Demonstration
20. Feedback || Questions Josh Freeman @jdfreeman11 github.com/jdfreeman
21. 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