Welcome to Phalcon Internals

Phalcon is not a traditional framework, it’s written as an C extension for PHP to provide high performance. The purpose of this document is to explain how it is built internally. If you’re interested in helping improve Phalcon, or simply understand how it works, this is the information you need.

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Table of Contents

• General Considerations
• Phalcon API
• Common Structures
  • Zvals
  • Zend Class Entries
• Memory Management
  • Phalcon MM
  • Others Kinds of Allocations
• Variables
  • Creation
  • Copy-on-Write
• Operations between Variables
  • Concatenation
• Working with Arrays
  • One dimension Arrays
• Calling Functions
• Objects Manipulation
  • Creation/Instantiation
  • Reading/Writing Properties
• Calling Methods
  • Instance methods
  • Static methods
• Classes
  • Registering methods and its arguments
  • Implementing a method
• Throwing Exceptions
• Compilation on Windows
  • The Process Idea
  • Before you Begin
  • The Build Environment
  • Setup Quick ‘n’ easy
• License