How will HHVM influence PHP?
HHVM's emergence could shape PHP by prompting a formal language specification, enabling controlled backward-incompatible changes, and encouraging JIT compilation in Zend.
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SQL Join Checker, Making Sure Your Joins Are Right
A PHP SQL join checker parses hand-written queries against database foreign keys to catch incorrect joins and reveal missing constraints.
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How to use nginx’s GeoIP module and MaxMind databases to expose IP geolocation data to PHP while avoiding the performance costs of PHP-based lookups.
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Benchmarks HipHop PHP against Zend PHP, showing HHVM’s gains after replacing slow str_getcsv and array_map implementations with simpler operations.
Read the postPHP: Installing HipHop PHP on Ubuntu
A step-by-step guide to installing HipHop PHP on 64-bit Ubuntu, including dependencies, libevent and libunwind builds, compilation, and startup.
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