Zephir Kernel

Zephir Kernel is a meta-framework on top of the Zend API helping to create PHP extensions in an easier way for a PHP developer.

In order to build a fast and stable framework, we have created the Zephir Kernel. The use of this API helps us to write C code in a PHP style. We have developed a number of functions to help the programmer to write code more interoperable with PHP in a easier way.

Zephir Kernel API is based on the Zend API, but we have added more features to facilitate us the work. Zephir is a very large project, frameworks need to be developed and improved every day, Zephir Kernel API helps us to write C code that is more stable and familiar to PHP developers.

If you’re a PHP developer maybe you don’t know C or you don’t want to learn C, but after read this guide you will find the Zephir API very familiar to your knowledge.

Zephir Kernel provides you:

• Manipulate arrays/objects
• Call functions/methods in the PHP userland
• Automatic memory management
• Require and execute PHP plain files
• Simplification of common operations like concatenation
• Read superglobals and update the active symbol table
• Register classes in namespaces
• Throw exceptions
• And more

License

Zephir is open-sourced software licensed under the New BSD License. See the LICENSE file for more information.

Related Documentation

• http://internals.phalconphp.com/en/latest/index.html