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HI Guys,
i am new to phalanger but it sounds absolutely interesting.
We have developed a huge application runnning on a custom webserver (not IIS or Apache). it is 100% .Net).
One case is to host Webpages. we have integrated PHP by FAST CGI currently.
How can i run Web applications build in PHP with phalanger instead of PHP.
Is there a way to run the PHP files like call php.exe?
Any code sample is appreciated.

best regards
Kai

Hi,

Phalanger has built-in request handler which caches/compiles/runs PHP file requested by web server;

In IIS the configuration is following:

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<system.webServer>
    <handlers>
      <add name="PhalangerHandler" path="*.php" verb="*" type="PHP.Core.RequestHandler, PhpNetCore, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0a8e8c4c76728c71" resourceType="Unspecified" preCondition="integratedMode" />
    </handlers>
  </system.webServer>

You can reuse/call this handler in order to process web request.

To run php script file from command line, you have to first compile it

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phpc.exe /target:exe file.php

and then run it

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file.exe

wow thats cool.
do you Need to set all the PHP variables also as Environment variables like we do that for the phpcgi file?

something like:

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            Process process = new Process();

            process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
            process.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
            process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
            process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
            process.StartInfo.FileName = "index.exe";
            process.StartInfo.StandardOutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
            var variables = CgiHelper.GetEnvironmentVariables(irequest, path, scriptName);

            foreach (var item in variables)
            {
               process.StartInfo.EnvironmentVariables.Add(item.Key, item.Value);
            }
  // Start the process
            process.Start();


best regards
Kai

when running web server, you don't want to run the .exe for every request (in case of .NET it would make huge overhead)

Please take a look on PHP.Core.RequestHandler class. You can reproduce steps done there. The only catch is, it makes use of System.Web.HttpContext and most of variables and states are filled from it. Including session handling and other web-related routines.

If you would like to use Phalanger in the context of your custom web server, without valid HttpContext instance, you might lose some features. (some functions rely on this class, checks HttpContext.Current etc.)

Variables are initialized on every request in PHP.Core.AutoGlobals, method Initialize. They come from System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariables(), HttpContext.Request.ServerVariables, Request.QueryString, Request.Cookies