Get faster applications requires refine many aspects: server, client, network, database, web server, static sources, etc. In this chapter we highlight scenarios where you can

It is the first time that an annotations parser component is written in C for the PHP world. Phalcon\Annotations

As of PHP 5.4.0, you can use PHP’s on built-in

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing

Phalcon provides encryption facilities via the Phalcon\Crypt component. This class

Volt is an ultra-fast and designer friendly templating language written in C for PHP. It provides you a set of helpers to write views in an easy way. Volt is highly integrated

In this second tutorial, we’ll explain a more complete application in order to deepen the development with Phalcon. INVO is one of the applications we have created as samples

Phalcon\Mvc\Url is the component responsible of generate URLs in a Phalcon application

Migrations are a convenient way for you to alter your database in a structured and organized manner.

Phalcon is written in C as an extension for PHP. There is a PECL