Hello, I'm an author of the upcoming book Phalcon Cookbook (https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/phalcon-cookbook). I think that it would be very nice if WAMP provided the Phalcon PHP extension in the base install. Recently Phalcon 3.0 entered into its first LTS period with support of three years. I think that this integration would provide a lot of value for both the Phalcon and WAMP project.
This request is motivated by the fact that people are now coming to our forum with questions about how to get Phalcon working on WAMP and XAMPP. The response has largely been for the users to install a real stack but I don't think that this is in the interest of this class of users who are likely largely motivated by development and less so about system administration and the weeks of time that it takes to first learn how to setup a *AMP stack.
Although Phalcon is written in the Zephir language the final code is C just like a normal PHP extension and so it can be compiled in a similar way and so it really shouldn't be difficult to include. Phalcon is now the #13 most starred project in the PHP category and it is rising very quickly and we expect it to reach the #10 position in the next 3-6 months.
[github.com]
This request is motivated by the fact that people are now coming to our forum with questions about how to get Phalcon working on WAMP and XAMPP. The response has largely been for the users to install a real stack but I don't think that this is in the interest of this class of users who are likely largely motivated by development and less so about system administration and the weeks of time that it takes to first learn how to setup a *AMP stack.
Although Phalcon is written in the Zephir language the final code is C just like a normal PHP extension and so it can be compiled in a similar way and so it really shouldn't be difficult to include. Phalcon is now the #13 most starred project in the PHP category and it is rising very quickly and we expect it to reach the #10 position in the next 3-6 months.
[github.com]