I'm happy to announce the release of my article dedicated to Phalcon, in the December issue of a German magazine called PHP Magazin.

The Phalcon Team wishes all of our friends, contributors, developers and users of the framework a Merry Christmas!. We hope that the new year will bring health and happiness to you and your loved ones!

I'm happy to announce the release of my article dedicated to Phalcon in a French magazine called Programmez.

We are happy to announce the release of a French book about Phalcon, written by Jérémy PASTOURET - @jenovateurs

2020 is the year when PHP will change versions. The latest and greatest will no longer be 7 but 8.

We are happy to announce that we have released Phalcon 3.4.5.

We are happy to announce that we have released Phalcon 3.4.4.

We are happy to announce that we have released Phalcon 3.4.3.

Phalcon is a framework that differs from the rest. Developers cannot update the framework using tools like composer with one command. Instead the extension needs to be recompiled with each new update. Some people find this a problem and a nuisance. Others, like us, find it entertaining! We have just launched a new vers…

This blog post will help you upgrade your existing Phalcon application to v4-alpha1. We will outline the areas that you need to pay attention to and make necessary alterations so that your code can run as smooth as it has been with v3. Although the changes are significant, it is more of a methodical task than a dauntin…

The Phalcon Team wishes all of our friends, contributors, developers and users of the framework a Merry Christmas!. We hope that the new year will bring health and happiness to you and your loved ones!

Phalcon has always had a small development community and not that many pull requests, offering bug fixes and enhancements, compared to other PHP frameworks. This was primarily due to the fact that most developers do not really know C. To help developers contribute, we have created a new language called Zephir, which ha…

We have been working hard to ensure that bugs are fixed and v4 is getting close to a release state. As always we would like to thank all of our contributors who have been helping in this effort, as well as everyone on our community sites (forum, discord etc.) for engaging in conversations, sharing criticism and ideas!…

We are happy to announce that we have released Phalcon 3.4.2.

Just a status update for all of our followers and contributors! As usual, a big thank you to everyone that helps us making Phalcon better!

We had some requests in the past to localize our documentation for Zephir. Today we are happy to announce that we now have full localization for our Zephir documentation.

We are happy to announce that we have released Phalcon 3.4.1.

We have started an evaluation of all of our github repositories as part of a cleanup process. Some of our repositories were experimental, just to see if things would work. Some are proofs of concept and some are working examples.

We are happy to announce that we have released Phalcon 3.4.0.

We are happy to announce that we have released Phalcon 3.3.2.

It has been a while since we last posted an update regarding Phalcon. We apologize for this. As you all know this is an open source project and all of us in the community contribute using our free time and enthusiasm for the project. However sometimes, other tasks need more immediate attention such as work and family.

We are happy to announce that Phalcon 3.3.1 has been released, addressing some bugs.

The Phalcon Team wishes all of our friends, contributors, developers and users of the framework a Merry Christmas!. We hope that the new year will bring health and happiness to you and your loved ones!

We are releasing Phalcon 3.2.3 today, addressing several bugs.

We are releasing Phalcon 3.2.2 today, addressing several bugs.

Often we get queries/requests on how someone can help with the documentation, and how they can set up the docs application on their local machine so as to see changes immediately on their screen before issuing a pull request with their changes.

We are releasing Phalcon 3.2.1 today, addressing several bugs.

TLDR; We released new docs, messed up, fixed it, enhancing it now, new translation platform.

With Phalcon 3.2.0 there were many new features and bugs fixed. Today we will write about most important things you need to know and show some code examples of new features.

Hello everyone and Happy Father's day!

We have received the following testimony from Michael Hanekom in our team email. Michael agreed to share his experience in our blog, and we are doing so without any edits:

This is a guest post from Scott Anderson at Nanobox.

Hello everyone!

Continuing from our yesterday's post, we are checking the benchmarks for micro PHP frameworks.

It has been quite a while since we run our benchmarks against other networks. Actually the last time we had the benchmarks in our documentation was for Phalcon 1.3! Yes we know, we have been neglecting this.

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We are really excited to announce Phalcon's latest release: 3.1.0!

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This post is part of a series. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

This post is part of a series. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

This post is part of a series. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

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Greetings everyone!

Greetings everyone!

The Phalcon Team wishes all of our friends, contributors, developers and users of the framework a Merry Christmas!. We hope that the new year will bring health and happiness to you and your loved ones!

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon 3.0.2 [LTS].

One of the most requested features by the community, is an easy way to install and upgrade Phalcon.

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon 3.0.1 [LTS].

The Phalcon team is very excited to share some news with our community!

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon 2.0.13!

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon 2.1 RC 1!

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon 2.0.10!

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon 2.0.9!

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon 2.0.8 and Phalcon 2.1.0 beta 2!

We're excited to announce the first beta release of Phalcon 2.1!

We are excited to announce the release of Phalcon 2.0.7! This is our seventh release in the 2.0.x series and it contains bug fixes and new features for your enjoyment!

We are excited to announce the release of Phalcon 2.0.6!

We are happy to announce that Phalcon 2.0.5 is released.

As part of our three to five weeks minor release schedule, we are excited to announce that Phalcon 2.0.4 has been released!

The following post explain our release process:

As part of our regular release schedule, we are happy to announce that Phalcon 2.0.3 has been released!

The development of Phalcon has been accelerated since we released 2.0.0. More and more contributors find Zephir very easy to understand and work with, and as a result it is time to release Phalcon 2.0.2. This version includes many features, bug fixes and improvements in terms of performance:

Today we're releasing Phalcon 2.0.1, this version fixes bugs and adds new features in the 2.0 series, the following is the CHANGELOG:

The wait is over! Phalcon 2.0 is here!

Phalcon 2 is the a major upgrade to the framework and will be released April 17th, 2015. This new version is a rewriting of about 85% total code from C to a high-level language we have created called Zephir.

Today we're pleased to announce the first release-candidate for Phalcon 2.0. This release has been quite a while in the making, and includes new features, improvements and a clean and friendly code base.

This post has been cross posted from Lezgro's blog, written by Pavlo Pastushenko

Today we're very excited to announce the release of the third beta (and possibly last one) of Phalcon 2!

This version is maintenance release of the Phalcon 1.3.x branch and it has a contributions from our community and fixes to the framework. We thank everyone that has worked on this release, especially with their contributions both to 1.3.3 and our work in progress 2.0.0.

It's been a while since we last communicated with our community. Rest assured our resolve and determination towards the project remains the same :)

Today we are launching a new site that would help us spread the word about Phalcon and show where Phalcon is used, whether this is production applications, hobby projects or tutorials.

We are today releasing the much awaited 1.3.2 version.

Eight months ago we announced the creation of a new high-level compiled language called Zephir which we used to completely rewrite Phalcon 2.0.

Yesterday (2014-04-05) we had our first Phalcon community hangout. The main purpose of the hangout was to meet the community, discuss about what Phalcon is and what our future steps are, and hear news, concerns, success stories from the community itself.

As with any project, statistics are always good to have around. Whether this is personal curiosity or showing off, statistics help us make decisions.

Right after our 2 year celebration and several months of development, more than 1,500 commits and a lot of improvements and fixes, Phalcon 1.3 is finally released!

We're very excited to announce the release of Phalcon 2.0 Alpha 1!

We are pleased to announce the release of Phalcon 1.2.5, the latest stable version of framework.

Phalcon was released more or less 2 years ago and a lot of good things have happened. Our community is growing every day, many developers are excited to see what Phalcon will bring us in this new year.

We are happy to announce the release of our first beta of Phalcon 1.3!

In addition to 2.0, the Phalcon Team is also focused on 1.3, a new version that will include new features, important improvements in the overall memory usage and new components like Phalcon\Image.

After some weeks of hard work, long nights, burning the midnight oil (as all programmers do), we have reached a very important milestone in our roadmap for Phalcon 2.0.

Last week, security researchers announced that a new attack towards websites has been discovered called BREACH. This attack allows the attacker to obtain data even if connections are secured with SSL connections. Several web sites and applications could be compromised. Note that this attack could affect any web applica…

It's time to talk about Phalcon 2 and the future of this project.

With every release, throughout the development of Phalcon, we have always focused on offering a good balance between new features (driven by the community) and bug fixes/optimizations.

We are happy to announce that Phalcon 1.2.1 is available for download/compile for our users.

This new release of the Phalcon framework, contains several new features (mostly requested by the community), bug fixes and various performance improvements. The main changes are highlighted in the beta article. You can see the CHANGELOG for a complete list of changes.

The Phalcon Team is constantly trying to find ways of making Phalcon even faster while keeping a good balance in terms of features offered and performance.

Success story from our community member Nikita Vershinin:

We are happy to announce the release of our first beta of Phalcon 1.2!

This post is quite technical, explaining the inner workings of Phalcon.

Further popular demand by our community, we have opened a modest store where we have Phalcon stickers ready for you to purchase!

Yet another success story from our community member Michael (Xpundel).

Our main website and the forum are powered by Phalcon Framework, both are open sourced and published on Github, you can use them as example to create your own applications or if you want to see how real websites perform with Phalcon.

Amazing projects need amazing tools. We might not know you just yet, but we think you'd be a great fit for building a better web. Together, we're ready to change the world!

We are constantly trying to enhance Phalcon, to make it a better framework using a completely new approach towards PHP frameworks. We are continuously adding new features and keeping the core stable and increasing performance as much as possible.

After a series of beta releases, Phalcon 1.1 is finally released!

Vökuró, is our new sample application to showcase the features of Phalcon. We implemented several features related to authorization, authentication and security. Some of these features have recently been introduced in the framework. This sample application provides a basic frontend and a backend where users/profiles/se…

In an effort to help developers with the installation of Phalcon, we have created a feature request with cPanel so that we can develop an installation script that would allow cPanel customers install the extension with literally one click.

After our successful 1.0 release, we continue improving Phalcon with our latest release 1.1.0 (beta). In this article, we're highlighting the most important features introduced:

In this tutorial, we're going to explain how to create a behavior for the Phalcon's ORM. Its goal is keep track of data changed by users on specific models. This behavior is often known as Blameable.

This tutorial is oriented to an intermediate/advanced audience. We'll explain how to create a custom model's initializer via annotations that can be easily modified/adapted to initialize collections, plugins, etc.

UPDATE: Although write Phalcon in Assembler may be challenging, we regret to inform you that this was our April Fools' joke, thanks for your great sense of humor! :)

Friends around the world, we're very proud and excited to announce that Phalcon 1.0 is ready for you!

We're are releasing today the beta version of Phalcon 1.0.0. Our goal is to get this version out to the community so as to discover bugs and get feedback. This post highlights some of the more important features introduced in this release:

This is a short post to remind you that Phalcon 0.9.0 is officially supported by Fortrabbit. So if you need to install applications created in Phalcon, you can take advantage of this provider.

We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon Framework 0.9.0 stable!

Phalcon now has a discussion forum!

We are happy to announce the release of Phalcon 0.9.0 Beta. This new release follows our roadmap, introducing features mostly requested by our community. We thank everyone that has been involved by providing input and helping with testing and finding bugs.

As we gradually get closer to Phalcon 1.0, we have introduced in each version more and more features, stabilizing the framework consistently without losing performance. Many of you have provided feedback and requested new features that have been implemented in each release or are soon to be implemented. Once again, a b…

We're very proud to announce the immediate release of Phalcon 0.8. As mentioned in the alpha/beta posts we've introduce a lot of new and exciting features in this major release. As always we have improved performance and addressed several bugs increasing the overall stability of the framework.

After the introduction of many new and exciting features in our alpha version, we are today releasing the first beta version of 0.8.0.

We're happy to announce the last release of this year, 0.8.0 Alpha. This release is a preview of Phalcon's next stable release which will come next year. We decided to release this alpha version, so that you can get acquainted with the new features coming down the line.

We are very excited to release our third Phalcon demo after INVO and the alternative PHP website to the community, so as to showcase the power of Phalcon.

We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon Framework 0.7.0 stable.

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!

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:

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.

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.

We are pleased to announce the release of Phalcon 0.6.0.

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

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.

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.

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…

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.

This is the last part of the introduction series regarding our upcoming release of Phalcon 0.5.0.

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.

In addition to the dependency injection component seen in the previous post of the introduction series, a new component makes its appearance in Phalcon 0.5: the Events Manager. Its purpose is to intercept the execution of most of the components of the framework by creating "hook points". These hook points allow the dev…

Development in the new version of Phalcon 0.5.0 is well underway. In this new version we are introducing new components for the community to use. In the blog posts to follow, we will explain these new features in length.

Following up on the 0.4.2 release a few weeks ago, we have a fresh update to address some issues and minor bugs.

As we continue to enhance Phalcon with new functionality and features, we have migrated all of our documentation on Read the Docs, a service that hosts documentation for open source projects such as ours.

Our main goal is to make Phalcon a great framework that everyone can benefit from.

We are excited to announce that Phalcon supports the PostgreSQL RDBMS:

We built Phalcon because we wanted a faster and better way to create web applications with PHP. Now we can't imagine working without it. This time we're releasing the first update to the 0.4.x branch. Phalcon 0.4.1 comes with interesting features described as follows:

Today, we're launching another sample application for Phalcon. This time, we wanted to create an alternative version of the PHP site powered by the C-extension framework. This is the greatest example we have done until now, implementing many of the main framework features, especially the newly added: Multilingual Suppo…

Being a full time developer you need a powerful tool to help you creating amazing web sites and applications. PhpStorm is an amazing IDE for PHP that has become very popular among developers lately.

We've been really busy this last month working on Phalcon 0.4.0, and for our pleasure is finally here! This release is giving much more satisfaction than ever before knowing that have been built with many suggestions and feedback from developers around all the globe.

Our next release, 0.4.0, is almost ready to rock, but we need your help to get the finish line in the best shape possible. Although previous alpha only included improvements in code structure and overall speed, this version (0.4.0 beta) is introducing several new features, improvements and bug fixes.

A couple of weeks a friend from Mexico, suggested us to create an alternative interface to Phalcon Developer Tools. It is true, some people have a hate relationship with the commend console ;).

We're happy to announce that after weeks of refactoring and polishing, 0.4.x are now ready to be tested. Although, it's an alpha release, it has many improvements, specially focused on a more maintainable code base and get running applications even faster.

If you spend a lot of time making software updates, you're probably familiar with the frustration of manually update every change you made on your development database to the production stage. :S

Some of you have asked us: Why the framework was called Phalcon?, and we're happy to respond.

Since rolling out version 0.3.4 a few days ago, we've been hard at work on the next installment of Phalcon. In addition to a few bug fixes and minor tweaks, this release focuses on the ORM component and its partner Phalcon\Db.

We're part of the "speed up the web", therefore, we want to have a rapid release schedule releasing continuous improvements and bug fixes to Phalcon.

INVO is a sample application completely written with Phalcon. It will give you a closer insight into application development with this framework. Although, it's quite functional, have some flaws we expect to complement at the future (at this time does not produce invoices, for example).

We're proud to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon 0.3.3. The last version 0.3.2 was a bugfix/maintenance release.

Phalcon Developer Tools is a set of scripts to help developers in creating application components such as Controllers or Models.

Last week, we were working on a huge refactoring over many aspects of Phalcon. Once all code in the last 0.2.x branch has reached maturity and reasonable stability We are now working on a new exciting branch producing a cleaner code base which let us to add many improvements as possible.

Hi, welcome to the Phalcon official blog. We plan to share articles, tutorials and tips from the community and the Phalcon developers. All this interesting content will be available soon. We think you're going to love it.