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v0.12 English, United States English, United States Chinese Simplified Greek Russian Spanish Turkish Ukrainian 0.12 0.12 0.11 0.10 Menu Welcome Why Zephir Introducing Zephir Installation Tutorial Basic Syntax Types Operators Arrays Classes and objects Built-in methods Control structures Exceptions Calling functions Closures Custom optimizers Configuration file Command Line Lifecycle hooks Extension globals phpinfo() sections Static analysis Optimizations Compiler warnings License Some Features A small taste Welcome! Welcome to Zephir, an open source, high-level/domain specific language designed to ease the creation and maintainability of extensions for PHP, with a focus on type and memory safety. Some features Zephir’s main features are: Feature Description Type system dynamic/static Memory safety pointers or direct memory management are not allowed Compilation model ahead of time Memory model task-local garbage collection A small taste The following code registers a class with a method that filters variables, returning their alphabetic characters: namespace MyLibrary; /** * Filter */ class Filter { /** * Filters a string, returning its alpha charactersa * * @param string str */ public function alpha(string str) { char ch; string filtered = ""; for ch in str { if (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z') || (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z') { let filtered .= ch; } } return filtered; } } The class can be used from PHP as follows: <?php $filter = new MyLibrary\Filter(); echo $filter->alpha("01he#l.lo?/1"); // prints hello External Links Below we have collected links to external resources that may interest you: Type system Memory safety Ahead-of-time compilation Memory management Forum Blog Discord Telegram Gab Parler MeWe Facebook Twitter Bitchute LBRY YouTube © 2013-present - Zephir Team...