Posted by Michael Fesser on 09/18/07 17:10

..oO(Jerry Stuckle)

>Nope, Lammi is correct. PHP code is not compiled, it is parsed. It may
> or may not be stored as byte code.

The parser is just a part of the entire process.

>Not even Zend claims PHP is compiled.

| [...] The Web Server Disk retrieves the code for the PHP-based web
| page and sends the PHP code to the Run-time Compiler. (3). The Zend
| Engine Run-time Compiler creates an compiled representation of the
| script, which is passed on to the Zend Engine Executor. [...]

(from <http://www.zend.com/zend/technology.php>)

There's even the special function __halt_compiler().

Micha

[Back to original message]