{"id":740,"date":"2017-05-08T12:39:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.onclickinnovations.com\/?p=740"},"modified":"2017-05-08T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:39:43","slug":"phalcon-the-extremely-fast-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onclickinnovations.com\/blog\/phalcon-the-extremely-fast-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Phalcon:: The Extremely Fast Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0“Phalcon”<\/strong>\u00a0a high-performance PHP Web framework. It is written as a C extension. Phalcon is probably one’s\u00a0go to framework, if the\u00a0application has to be in PHP and be as performant as possible. Since , it is very fast, but cannot run on shared hosting. As\u00a0compiled as a C extension into PHP which makes it faster by an order of magnitude. Phalcon doesn\u2019t have footprint in one’s\u00a0project it resides in one’s\u00a0memory, so it will not be seen specific code in your project. We\u00a0can\u2019t play around with Phalcon\u2019s source code and modify to fit \u00a0different needs.<\/p>\n

In PHALCON<\/a>, as default, directory structure, and the way one\u00a0write classes dictates \u00a0routes. Phalcon is blazing fast. Phalcon is different, as it is delivered as a php extension, which will be injected into the php core while running. So, we\u00a0can just download the extension on Windows, or rebuild it, enable it in php.ini, and after that we\u00a0got a high performance framework working. It is not easy extendable at all. Phalcon \u00a0is a completely different framework as its core files are compiled as a php extension. Its fastest PHP framework but because of the dependency on many core api’s the documentation becomes the limiting factor. Phalcon is compiled framework hence changing some core functionality would be difficult. \u00a0When one’s\u00a0own code hooks into a class\/method of Phalcon, that method will be executed directly as C, which is already compiled to machine code, which is basically as fast as one\u00a0can get. Unlike most PHP frameworks, Phalcon is implemented as a web server extension\u00a0\u00a0and aiming to boost execution speed, reduce resource usage, and handle more HTTP requests\u00a0\u00a0per second than comparable frameworks written primarily in PHP.<\/p>\n

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