Phalcon (framework)

Phalcon

Developer(s)	Andres Gutierrez and others
Initial release	November 14, 2012 (2012-11-14)
Stable release	2.0.13 / 19 May 2016 (2016-05-19)
Repository	github.com/phalcon/cphalcon
Written in	C, PHP
Platform	Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Type	Web application framework
License	BSD License
Website	phalconphp.com/en/

Phalcon is a high-performance PHP web framework based on the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. Originally released in 2012, it is an open-source framework licensed under the terms of the BSD License.

Unlike most PHP frameworks, Phalcon is implemented as a web server extension written in C, aiming to boost execution speed, reduce resource usage, and handle more HTTP requests per second than comparable frameworks written primarily in PHP. One drawback of this approach is that root/administrative access is required on the server to install Phalcon by building a custom binary or using a precompiled one.

History

Phalcon was created by Andres Gutierrez (from Girardot, Colombia) and collaborators looking for a new approach to traditional web application frameworks written in PHP. The original intention was to use "Spark" as the name, but the combination of words "PHP" and "Falcon" (which is one of fastest animals) ended as the name of the framework. Phalcon's initial release was made available on November 14, 2012.

Phalcon 0.3.5 includes an ORM written in C, MVC components, and cache components. This release was followed by the Phalcon 0.5.0 that brought a high-level dialect of SQL called PHQL, and Phalcon 0.6.0 that introduced Volt, a template engine similar to Jinja. Phalcon 1.0 was released on March 21, 2013.

See also

• Zephir (programming language)
• Phalcon Slayer – a wrapper that restructures the Phalcon framework
• CodeIgniter – a native PHP web application framework also focusing on performance

External links

• Official website
• Getting Started with Phalcon, a PHP Framework – Part 2
• Source code from Github