php example project github
Php example project github
The PHP Interpreter
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world. PHP is distributed under the PHP License v3.01.
The PHP manual is available at php.net/docs.
Prebuilt packages and binaries
Prebuilt packages and binaries can be used to get up and running fast with PHP.
For Windows, the PHP binaries can be obtained from windows.php.net. After extracting the archive the *.exe files are ready to use.
For other systems, see the installation chapter.
Building PHP source code
For a minimal PHP build from Git, you will need autoconf, bison, and re2c. For a default build, you will additionally need libxml2 and libsqlite3.
On Ubuntu, you can install these using:
On Fedora, you can install these using:
Testing PHP source code
PHP ships with an extensive test suite, the command make test is used after successful compilation of the sources to run this test suite.
Shall run make test with a maximum of 4 concurrent jobs: Generally the maximum number of jobs should not exceed the number of cores available.
The qa.php.net site provides more detailed info about testing and quality assurance.
Installing PHP built from source
After a successful build (and test), PHP may be installed with:
Depending on your permissions and prefix, make install may need super user permissions.
Contributions are most welcome by forking the GitHub repository and sending a pull request.
Discussions are done on GitHub, but depending on the topic can also be relayed to the official PHP developer mailing list internals@lists.php.net.
See Git workflow for more details on the pull request workflow.
Guidelines for contributors
See further documents in the repository for more information on how to contribute:
For the list of people who’ve put work into PHP, please see the PHP credits page.