Phalcon is an open source web framework delivered as a C extension for the PHP language providing high performance and lower resource consumption.

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Phalcon is written in Zephir/C with platform independence in mind. As a result, Phalcon is available on Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and macOS. You can either download a binary package for the system of your choice or build it from source.

PIE is the modern PHP extension installer:

pie install phalcon/cphalcon

pecl install phalcon

For detailed installation instructions you can check our installation page in the docs.

Generating new documentation files for docs repository can be done using the script in tests/__config/generate-api-docs.php. Steps:

• Clone the phalcon repo
• Checkout the tag you would like to generate docs for.
• Run php tests/__config/generate-api-docs.php
• The files *.md files in nikos/api/ will contain the documentation
• For publishing to the Phalcon website this repo is used.

• Contributing to Phalcon
• Official Documentation
• Zephir - The language Phalcon is written on
• Incubator - Community driven plugins and classes extending the framework (written in PHP)

• Discussions
• Discord
• Stack Overflow

• Telegram
• Gab
• LinkedIn
• MeWe
• Facebook
• Twitter

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Phalcon is open source software licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.

Copyright © 2011-present, Phalcon Team.

See the LICENSE.txt file for more. Additional licenses of packages that Phalcon uses, is inspired by or has adapted is located in the 3rdparty/licenses directory.