Can you “compile” PHP code and upload a binary-ish file, which will just be run by the byte code interpreter?

After this question was asked, Facebook launched HipHop for PHP which is probably the best-tested PHP compiler to date (seeing as it ran one of the world’s 10 biggest websites). However, Facebook discontinued it in favour of HHVM, which is a virtual machine, not a compiler.

Beyond that, googling PHP compiler turns up a number of 3rd party solutions.

PeachPie

  • PeachPie GitHub
  • compiles PHP to .NET and .NET Core
  • can be compiled into self-contained binary file
  • runs on Mac, Linux, Windows, Windows Core, ARM, …

Phalanger

  • GitHub (download), Wikipedia
  • compiles to .NET (CIL) looks discontinued from July 2017 and doesn’t seem to support PHP 7.

phc

  • compiles to native binaries
  • not very active now (February 2014) – last version in 2011, last change in summer 2013

Roadsend PHP Compiler

bcompiler

  • PECL extension of PHP
  • experimental
  • compiles to PHP bytecode, but can wrap it in Windows binary that loads PHP interpreter (see bcompiler_write_exe_footer() manual)
  • looks discontinued now (February 2014) – last change in 2011

Project Zero

  • Wikipedia, IBM
  • incubator of changes for WebSphere sMash
  • supported by IBM
  • compiles to Java bytecode
  • looks discontinued now (February 2014) – website down, looks like big hype in 2008 and 2009

Bambalam

  • compiles to stand-alone Windows binaries
  • the binaries contain bytecode and a launcher
  • looks discontinued now (February 2014) – last change in 2006

BinaryPHP

  • compiles to C++
  • looks discontinued now (February 2014) – last change in 2003

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