The project's development has been a lot slower over the last year or so compared to previous times. For a number of reasons, we made a decision to change how we provide the project to our community in order to keep it alive.
Over the course of the 6+ years we’ve been developing the PHP compiler to .NET, many practical apps have been tried on PeachPie, both by the core developer team and by the community. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the coolest projects built with PeachPie.
It’s been a while since our last update, but the project is still well alive and under active development. Let’s take a look at some of the improvements to the PeachPie compiler platform; we’re continuously working on it to make PeachPie fast and stable for everyday use.
PeachPie offers many practical use-cases for both PHP and .NET developers, but some use-cases are a bit more mind-blowing than others. In this article, we’ll discuss how to create websites in PHP and run them on the client side using web assembly and Blazor.
PeachPie has been in development for a few years already. It is an ambitious project, so we set a few milestones before we felt comfortable releasing the official version 1.0.0.
There is a massive amount of libraries and frameworks written in PHP, providing useful functionalities, some even commercially. You may have come across libraries, such as PDF generators, the Twig templating engine, random data generators, etc. Let’s take a look at how to develop the library for both PHP and .NET, so that C# developers will be able to seamlessly consume the functionality, as well.
Whenever you are building a website, you choose how to design your front-end. Different platforms each offer their own ways; in PHP, the selection of options is by far the most extensive.
Almost every post, article or thread on Reddit about PeachPie is inevitably met with someone posting the famed Ryan Reynolds GIF asking “but why?”, so instead of explaining each time, we decided to put our entire motivation behind this project on paper so that we can link to it.
PHP programs usually need a runtime installed on your target machine, appropriate version of PHP itself, a web server and some sort of configuration. This is no longer needed when you are compiling PHP code into .NET. The PHP web or console program can be distributed as a self-contained executable with no such dependencies.
We just released PeachPie 0.9.18, which targets some syntax extensions, so that PeachPie can provide more and much needed CLR interoperability features. Extending the syntax does not affect any existing PHP code and only provides developers with more options.