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:
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.
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Help to make Phalcon more popular.
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.
The long wait is over, Phalcon 0.5.0 final is here! This version marks a huge step forward in our development roadmap, taking into account mostly features requested by the community and offering a lot of flexibility while still keeping performance high. Phalcon framework is now a very powerful, extensible and fast tool building any number of websites and applications using PHP.
The major changes in this version are:
It has been a really busy month and a half. We concentrated all of our efforts in developing Phalcon 0.5.0, which outlines a huge rewrite of core parts of the framework. We increased flexibility, extensibility and added more features while still keeping performance high.
Most of the examples and features present in previous versions work - however there might be some unexpected behavior (bugs) lurking around. All the tests are passing in our Travis CI server and the official site has been running on 0.5.0b1 for a few days now with no problems.
This is the last part of the introduction series regarding our upcoming release of Phalcon 0.5.0.
With the 0.5x release, we have made changes in the architecture, introducing more components the framework while still keeping performance very high. We felt that the ORM could use some additional optimization as well as functionality, so that was the last area we concentrated on. We have made many improvements in the database and ORM components, such as the use of PDO, improved security with automatically binding parameters and much more.
The third installment of our blog posts regarding the upcoming 0.5.0 version is about the MVC implementation. Below follows implementation concepts and examples of a MVC application using Phalcon 0.5.0.
As far as the MVC implementation is concerned, our main goal with 0.5.0, was to make it more flexible than ever, giving more control to the developer. Due to this, Phalcon is now able to load simple MVC applications and multi-module ones.
