phalcon / phalcon

v6.0.0RC3 2026-10-01 16:30 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.1 <9.0
• ext-fileinfo: *
• ext-json: *
• ext-mbstring: *
• ext-pdo: *
• ext-xml: *
• matthiasmullie/minify: ^1.3
• phalcon/traits: ^4.1

Requires (Dev)

• ext-gettext: *
• ext-yaml: *
• friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer: ^3.95
• pds/composer-script-names: ^1.0
• pds/skeleton: ^1.0
• phalcon/annotations: 1.0.x-dev
• phalcon/code-quality: ^1.0
• phalcon/phql: 1.0.x-dev
• phalcon/quill: ^0.5.0
• phalcon/talon: ^1.0.0
• phalcon/volt: 1.0.x-dev
• phpbench/phpbench: ^1.4
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.2
• phpunit/phpunit: ^10.5
• predis/predis: ^3.4
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^4.0
• vlucas/phpdotenv: ^5.6

Suggests

• ext-apcu: to use Cache\Adapter\Apcu, Storage\Adapter\Apcu
• ext-gd: to use Image\Adapter\Gd
• ext-igbinary: to use Storage\Serializer\Igbinary
• ext-imagick: to use Image\Adapter\Imagick
• ext-memcached: to use Cache\Adapter\Libmemcached, Session\Adapter\Libmemcached, Storage\Adapter\Libmemcached
• ext-openssl: to use Encryption\Crypt
• ext-pcntl: to use signal-based graceful shutdown in Queue\Consumer\Worker
• ext-redis: to use Cache\Adapter\Redis, Session\Adapter\Redis, Storage\Adapter\Redis
• ext-yaml: to use Config\Adapter\Yaml

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• framework
• php

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-10-01 16:38 UTC

README

Phalcon is an open-source, full-stack web framework for PHP, focused on high performance, low overhead and a clean, expressive API.

Important

This repository is the pure PHP implementation of Phalcon (v6). Unlike cphalcon, it is not a C extension: there is nothing to compile and no PECL/PIE installation required - just add it to your project with Composer. Phalcon v6 is currently in alpha; APIs may change before the stable release.

A big thank you to our Backers; you rock!

Getting Started

Phalcon is written in plain PHP with portability in mind, so it runs anywhere a supported PHP runtime is available - GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows.

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.1 < 9.0
• ext-fileinfo, ext-json, ext-mbstring, ext-pdo, ext-xml

Optional extensions enable additional adapters and features:

Extension	Used by
ext-apcu	Cache\Adapter\Apcu, Storage\Adapter\Apcu
ext-gd	Image\Adapter\Gd
ext-igbinary	Storage\Serializer\Igbinary
ext-imagick	Image\Adapter\Imagick
ext-memcached	Cache\Adapter\Libmemcached, Session\Adapter\Libmemcached, Storage\Adapter\Libmemcached
ext-openssl	Encryption\Crypt
ext-pcntl	Queue\Consumer\Worker
ext-redis	Cache\Adapter\Redis, Session\Adapter\Redis, Storage\Adapter\Redis
ext-yaml	Config\Adapter\Yaml

Installation

Install the framework with Composer:

composer require phalcon/phalcon

While v6 is in alpha you may need to allow pre-release versions:

composer require phalcon/phalcon:^6.0@alpha

For detailed instructions see the installation page in the docs.

Generating API Documentation

API documentation for the docs repository can be generated with the script in bin/generate-api-docs.php:

• Clone the phalcon repository.
• Check out the tag you would like to generate docs for.
• Run php bin/generate-api-docs.php.
• The generated *.md files contain the documentation, ready for publishing to the Phalcon docs repository.

Testing

Tests run with PHPUnit:

composer test-unit          # unit tests
composer test-db-mysql      # MySQL database tests
composer test-db-pgsql      # PostgreSQL database tests
composer test-db-sqlite     # SQLite database tests
composer test-all           # everything

Static analysis and coding standards:

composer analyze            # PHPStan
composer cs                 # PHP_CodeSniffer (PSR-12)

Sponsors and backers

These sponsors and backers support Phalcon and Zephir. To join them, become a sponsor or a backer on Open Collective or GitHub Sponsors.

Sponsors

Partners

Supporters

Backers

Core Team

Anton, Nikolaos

Links

General

• Contributing to Phalcon
• Official Documentation
• Incubator - community-driven plugins and classes that extend the framework

Support

• Discussions
• Discord
• Stack Overflow

Social Media

• Telegram
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Twitter

License

Phalcon is open-source software licensed under the MIT License.

Copyright © 2020-present, The Phalcon PHP Framework.

See the LICENSE file or license.phalcon.io for details.