Introducing PeachPie 1.0.0

Posted on March 14, 2021, in category Announcement, Information, News, tags: , , , ,

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.

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Targeting a library for both PHP and .NET

Posted on November 14, 2020, in category Information, Tutorial, tags: , , , ,

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 […]

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Autoloading redefined and composer.json

Posted on May 31, 2020, in category Information, tags: , , , ,

Autoloading is an essential part of PHP applications, required due to the nature of PHP itself. The common standard defined by the “composer dependency manager” is used across the majority of frameworks and components, and as explained on the documentation page, autoloading can eat up as much as 100ms of request time. Let’s have a […]

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Creating an Executable Console Application in PHP

Posted on March 15, 2020, in category Tutorial, tags: , , , ,

There are a few tools out there that allow you to create an executable console application in PHP, but they tend to be a little heavy and limited to a certain OS. With PeachPie, console apps can be created straightforwardly, without having to distribute the sources, and it can be debugged right in Visual Studio.

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Define compile-time constants in PHP

Posted on March 3, 2020, in category Information, tags: , , , ,

PHP programs are full of global constants that are defined over and over during the runtime even though their value doesn’t change. In this article, we’re describing a way to tackle this potential performance bottleneck.

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How to diagnose PHP code

Posted on January 12, 2020, in category Information, Tutorial, tags: , , , ,

In this article you will find out how to pinpoint all the potential issues in regular PHP code by taking advantage of fast compiler-based static program analysis, provided as a part of the PeachPie project.

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The ultimate guide to migrating a PHP project to .NET with PeachPie

Posted on December 1, 2019, in category Information, Tutorial, tags: , , , , , , , ,

PHP is an incredibly rich ecosystem, but with the growing popularity of .NET Core, you may want to combine these two worlds. Let’s take a look at how we migrate a PHP project to .NET with the help of VS Code and PeachPie.

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What’s new in PeachPie 0.9.46

Posted on September 16, 2019, in category Information, News, tags: , , , , ,

There have been some major additions and overhauls in PeachPie lately in preparation for version 1.0, so we decided to ship one more release before we set our sights on the final preparations before the first major stable version. What happened since 0.9.45 Just in case you don’t know, PeachPie is a modern PHP compiler […]

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New features in 0.9.45

Posted on August 7, 2019, in category Information, News, tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Leading up to the release of the first stable version of our PHP compiler, we are now implementing the first various compiler optimizations. Read more about them in this blog and why you should update or try PeachPie 0.9.45!

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PHP on .NET Core 3.0

Posted on May 28, 2019, in category Announcement, News, tags: , , ,

Our recent work on the PeachPie compiler gives us a few cool abilities and features. Not only can you compile and run PHP code natively on the .NET runtime (which means all the performance benefits and interop with C#) but now it all works fluently on the new .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0. Let’s […]

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