How To Install Phalcon PHP Framework on CentOS / RedHat

Phalcon is a high performance Php framework with MVC support. Its is very useful framework for developing dynamic applications rapidly. This article will help you install and enable Phalcon php framework in CentOS, Redhat and Fedora Systems.

Install Required Packages

To start with Phalcon Project, we first need to setup a running LAMP server. If you have already running LAMP stack skip this step else use followings commands to setup lamp stack.

Install Apache

# yum --enablerepo=remi,epel install httpd

Install MySQL

# yum --enablerepo=remi,epel install mysql-server
# service mysqld start
# /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Install PHP

# yum --enablerepo=remi,epel install php php-mysql gcc libtool
# service httpd restart

Install Phalcon PHP Framework

Now download latest source code from Github and build it using following commands. You will required to have git installed on your system.

$ cd /opt/
$ git clone https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon.git
$ cd cphalcon/build
$ sudo ./install

Enable Phalcon php extension in your system.

$ echo "extension=phalcon.so" > /etc/php.d/phalcon.ini
$ service httpd reload

Verify Phalcon

Before proceeding for development, make sure phalcon php framework has been successfully installed with your php.

Create a info.php on your web document root with following content and access it in browser.

<?php
  phpinfo();
?>

You will see output like below.

Create Project with Phalcon

As you have successfully installed phalcon php extension in your system. Lets visit below url to install Phalcon Developer Tools for creating project and add components in project.

https://tecadmin.net/creating-project-with-phalcon-developer-tools-in-linux/