NYCPHP Meetup

[Charles Vasquez]

Thanks you for sharing the knowledge!

Best,
Charles

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Jeff Slutz <jeff at jeffslutz.com> wrote:

> I've no personal experience with these tools but there are lots of good
> references here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3189100/php-compiler-for-windows
>
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> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Charles Vasquez <cvasquez39 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > what is hip hop? When you speak about compiling do you mean creating a
>> > windows dll or something? I am new to this type of speak, not new to
>> php,
>> > but the php community. I practice php for personal purposes.
>>
>> Hi Charles,
>>
>> Hip Hop is a technology developed by Facebook. It basically takes PHP
>> source code and rewrites it as highly optimized C++ code (or maybe
>> just C, I can't remember). It makes the code run faster and scale
>> better for them.
>>
>> But by compiling, I mean creating a Windows executable. A program you
>> can run directly without having to have the language interpreter on
>> your machine. So I could write PHP code, compile it to a Windows
>> executable and distribute that .exe file which people could run
>> directly on their machines without having to have PHP installed. While
>> a DLL is something pretty similar and is compiled, it's not quite the
>> same thing. DLL's are more libraries of functions that programs can
>> use while a program executable is the program itself.
>>
>> That's probably clear as mud, I'm sure. I suck at explaining things.
>>
>> Anthony
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