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.
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.
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.
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.
PHP is a language well known for its many dynamic features that are occasionally somewhat overused. Whether it is dynamic typing, type juggling or dynamic code evaluation, these features are very demanding on the underlying runtime. Another feature, the so called ‘eval’, is no less interesting. Let’s examine it further.