Phalcon is a web framework delivered as a C extension providing high performance and lower resource consumption.

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

For use Phalcon on windows you only should to download a DLL library (http://phalconphp.com/download). Edit your php.ini file and then add:

extension=php_phalcon.dll

Finally restart your webserver.

On a Unix based platform you can easily compile and install the extension from sources.

We need some packages previously installed.

• PHP 5.x development resources
• GCC compiler

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install php5-dev php5-mysql gcc make

Suse:

yast2 -i php5-pear php5-devel libmysqlclient gcc make autoconf2.13

Follow these instructions to generate a binary extension for your platform:

git clone git://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon.git
cd cphalcon/build
sudo ./install

Add the extension to your php.ini

extension=phalcon.so

Finally restart the webserver

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Phalcon is open-sourced software licensed under the New BSD License. See the docs/LICENSE.txt file for more information.