Welcome to Phalanger v2.0
Latest News
January 2009Since majority of the team are students of Charles University, Prague, it is important to note that we will not be so actively working on Phalanger, since we will be having exam time until half of February. Anyway, the release marked as December 2008 will not be a default release, since we have had difficulties with the Silverlight 2.0 installer. More likely, we will include Silverlight support in the next major release, which was mentioned previously along with other changes.
December 2008The development of Phalanger is getting to be more active. We have been funded by Jadu, UK Content Management vendor, one of the first major companies wishing to use Phalanger in real-world environment, to provide better duck typing functionality and debug some major bugs. Along with that we have new team members - Miloslav Beno and Jakub Misek. There is also ongoing project at Charles University which is aimed to provide Phalanger with better Visual Studio support, Intellisense and LINQ (which is in fact currently partially implemented but need huge improvements). We are planning major release in Q1/2009 along with minor patch after Christmas. We will inform in more detail later.
March 2008We released the Beta 3 version of Phalanger, the PHP Language Compiler for the .NET Framework. Latest release contains many bug fixes, improved compatibility with existing PHP applications and Visual Studio Integration Package (not compatible with Express editions). This release also contains updated sample (Personal Web Site Starter kit) that demonstrates writing PHP applications using ASP.NET 2.0 framework.
- Phalanger can now be installed into Visual Studio 2008 (including the free "Shell" edition!). Read more at php-compiler web...
- We've released a new version of Phalanger which includes following new features:
- Silverlight 1.1 (alpha) support including project templates for Visual Studio
- Visual Studio 2008 support including new Windows Forms designer
- More information about this release is available at php-compiler web...
- We launched new php-compiler.net web page. If you're looking for more information about Phalanger, you should check it out!
Links (to php-compiler.net)
- If you're new to Phalanger you should first read..
- If you want to learn more or contribute (after registration) to our web page...
- For more details look at
Other links
If you want to know who worked on Phalanger in the past and who is working on Phalanger now, look at the
page about authors. You might be also interested in
the project history or first version of Phalanger -
Phalanger 1.0.
If you're considering what Phalanger version to download, you should read about Phalanger
nightly builds. Also look at
MySQL Managed Extension for Phalanger - this is an extension implementing the
mysql_something functions and you have to download it separately. Also we want to give credit to authors of all
third party tools/code distributed with Phalanger.
Call for Participation
Are you interested in the project and would like to contribute? Do not hesitate to contact us. We are seeking for skilled and passionate people who would like to improve Phalanger in any way. There is a plenty of opportunities for participation including the following:
- Please help us to prioritize features missing from Phalanger which you believe are preventing you from using Phalanger in a real-world environment
- Contribute to Phalanger user wiki (after registering at php-compiler.net). You can ask and answer FAQ questions. Write short tutorials about any Phalanger topic or share your experiences with running PHP applications on Phalanger. If your favorite application isn't working as expected, you can try to find out why and help us by reporting a bug!
- If you want to develop part of Phalanger, you can work on a managed extension for Phalanger so that it can replace the native one, or add missing functionality (requires knowledge of C# and the extension).
- If you want to work on very advanced project, you can participate on development of Extension Manager for PHP5 extensions (requires knowledge of C/CLI and advanced programming techniques including .NET Remoting).