phalcon/zephir

Zephir is a compiled high level language aimed to the creation of C-extensions for PHP

0.23.0 2026-06-06 14:43 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.0
• ext-ctype: *
• ext-hash: *
• ext-mbstring: *
• ext-pcre: *
• ext-xml: *
• ext-zlib: *
• monolog/monolog: ^2.3
• phalcon/cli-options-parser: ^2.0
• phpstan/phpdoc-parser: ^2.3

Requires (Dev)

• ext-gmp: *
• ext-pdo: *
• ext-pdo_sqlite: *
• ext-zip: *
• phpbench/phpbench: ~1.2.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^9.5
• psr/log: 1.1.*
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^4.0

MIT

• Phalcon Team
• Contributors

• extension
• phalcon
• internals
• zephir

README

Zephir - is a high level programming language that eases the creation and maintainability of extensions for PHP. Zephir extensions are exported to C code that can be compiled and optimized by major C compilers such as gcc/clang/vc++. Functionality is exposed to the PHP language.

Documentation

• Official documentation is located here

Community

• Follow us on GitHub and Facebook
• Get Zephir support on Discord and GitHub discussions
• Read our Code of Conduct

Contributing

Zephir is an Open Source, community-driven project. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details about contributions to this repository.

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Backers

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License

Zephir licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.