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Zephir - (ZE)nd Engine (PH)p (I)nt(R)mediate - is a high level 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 then exposed to the PHP language.

To get started, you will need to install Zephir.

• Zephir Documentation

All modules hosted here live under the Zend namespace and can be accessed via the following:

Zend\Registry::set('config', array(1,2,3));
$config = Zend\Registry::get('config');

Note the Zend\Registry forward slash, instead of Zend_Registry underscore.

You can use the modules here by invoking the following:

$ zephir build && sudo apachectl -k restart

This should build the zend.so extension and place it in your defined php extensions directory. From there you can include the module by updating your php.ini file:

[zf1]
extension=/Users/sean/zendframework/zend/ext/modules/zend.so

Captured with xhprof, this Zephir version of ZF1's Zend_Registry performs 53% faster than it's original PHP counterpart.

A list of complete (ready-to-use) modules:

• Registry