Author: Awais Farooq

First of all, create the initial project structure. While Phalcon lets you use any structure you like, the structure I chose for this exercise partly implements an MVC-pattern. We have no views because it’s a RESTful project, but we have controllers and models, each with their own folder, and services. Services are the classes that…

Almost all permutations of a RESTful application have one thing in common: a User entity. So, for our example project, we will create a tiny REST application to create, read, update, and delete users, (also known as CRUD). You can see this project fully completed at my GitLab repository. There are two branches there because I decided to divide…

Generally, there are two types of MVC frameworks: full-stack frameworks (like Symfony, Yii) and micro frameworks (like Lumen, Slim, Silex). Full-stack frameworks are a good choice for a big project since they provide more functionality, but they need a bit more qualification and time to run. Micro frameworks allow you to create lightweight prototypes very…

The official benchmarks are five years old—too old to be valid now, but even then you can see dramatically what distinguishes PhalconPHP. Let’s look at something newer. In a 2016 comparison, Phalcon places top five—an obvious leader among the professional frameworks, and conceding only to raw PHP and some micro frameworks. So, Phalcon is fast. Raw PHP is…

PhalconPHP is an MVC framework for PHP written in C and supplied as a compiled PHP extension. This is what makes it one of the fastest frameworks available (to be completely honest the fastest one is Yaf, but it is a micro framework and has much, much more limited functionality than Phalcon). PhalconPHP doesn’t need…