KPHP as a language: usage

We will dive into the KPHP language. At first reading, start from the very beginning.

• KPHP vs PHP
  • KPHP vs PHP differences
  • KPHP functions extending PHP
  • Available PHPDoc annotations
  • What exactly would be compiled?
  • Compiler command-line options
  • Benchmarks
• PHP extensions for using KPHP
  • PHP polyfills
  • vkext
  • PHP snippets
  • FFI
• Static typing and KPHP type system
  • Type inferring
  • PHPDoc to declare types
  • KPHP type system
  • Instances (objects)
  • Typed arrays
  • Casting types
  • Generic functions f<T>()
  • Generic classes C<T>
• KPHPStorm — IDE plugin
• Various “howto” solved by KPHP
  • Call a function by name
  • Serialization, msgpack
  • JSON encode and decode
  • PHPUnit, mocks, etc
  • Exceptions
  • Colored functions
  • Compile-time location
• Best practices and optimization
  • Strict typing is performance
  • Async programming: coroutines
  • Parallelism: job workers
  • Shared memory across requests
  • Embedded profiler, like valgrind
  • Performance inspections
  • Examine codegenerated sources
  • Compiling huge projects