Our friend Marcin @mailopl from Poland sent us this amazing tutorial and introduction to Phalcon. Check the first part here. Enjoy it!

Our friend Marcin @mailopl from Poland sent us this amazing tutorial and introduction to Phalcon. Enjoy it!

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With the upcoming release in a week or so of 0.7.0 and the interfaces functionality attached to it, we have created a new repository in github called Phalcon Incubator:

https://github.com/phalcon/incubator

The newest version of Phalcon has entered the beta stage. 0.7.0 Beta 1 is now available. This upcoming release introduces features requested by the community, to make the framework more extensible and more robust.

Some of the most important features introduced in this version are highlighted below:

Optimization is based on improvements concerning network connectivity, the web server optimization and improvement of the different elements that have their own websites, from HTML to JavaScript, CSS or going by the number of requests to DNS servers.

Many stories about how large Internet companies have improved their businesses by increasing their websites performance are not so many years ago:

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We are pleased to announce the release of Phalcon 0.6.0.

This version marks two milestones in Phalcon’s maturity and features such as support for MongoDb and Volt.

We are very excited to announce that the 0.6.0 version of Phalcon is just around the corner.

With this version, we have made significant performance improvements in many components of the framework. We are also introducing the first template engine for PHP written in C called Volt.

We are proud to be pioneers in PHP performance in many areas such as:

Some of you have asked us on how to help to make the project to be more popular. This post consolidates previously discussed points on how to make Phalcon more popular.

TL;DR

Help to make Phalcon more popular.

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Following the major refactoring in 0.5.0, we are going to be posting several blog posts introducing the changes in the upcoming version of Phalcon, 0.6.0.

One of the most important component introduced in the 0.6.0 series is Volt, a completely new template engine, written in C, ready to be used in PHP applications.

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