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Alternative interpreters??

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:22 am
by Eric Zuidweg
Coming from the J2EE world, i am quite new to PHP. I was wondering if there was an alternative to the Zend interpreter that you run into on Windows and some Linux versions.

The only thing i could find was the (commercial) Roadsend compiler...

Greetz,

Eric

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:04 am
by php3ch0
I think you need to set up apache + php on your computer then run it in a browser through

http://localhost/foo.php

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:15 pm
by Eric Zuidweg
Understood. I've got all that working. But the PHP engine is always from the Zend company. Are ther other people that build an alternative engine?

Eric

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:21 pm
by timvw
Apart from ZendEngine(2) there aren't much other targets. There is Phalanger which generates code for dotnet.


If you're looking for an opcode cache you could look at APC.

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:12 pm
by evilmonkey
timvw wrote:Apart from ZendEngine(2) there aren't much other targets. There is Phalanger which generates code for dotnet.


If you're looking for an opcode cache you could look at APC.
Hey, Phlanger is pretty awsome. Being Open Source, doesn't it render the Roadsend Compiler obsolete? Then again, you'd need the .NET architechture...Still, awsome way to make PHP executables if you ask me...