• Linux/Unix/Mac

• Windows DLLs

• Developer Tools

• Vagrant

• IDE stubs

Phalcon is a C extension, so you need to download a binary for your platform or compile it from source code.

Ubuntu

To install Phalcon on Ubuntu you need to follow these steps:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:phalcon/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5-phalcon

If you wish to install the legacy version of Phalcon (1.x) use the following PPA:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:phalcon/legacy

If you are missing apt-add-repository run the following command:

# Ubuntu 14.04+
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

# Ubuntu 12.04
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

Compilation

On Linux you can easily compile and install the extension from source code.

Requirements

We need some packages previously installed:

• PHP 5.x development resources

• GCC compiler

#Ubuntu
    sudo apt-get install php5-dev php5-mysql gcc libpcre3-dev

#Fedora
    sudo yum install php-devel php-mysqlnd gcc libtool

#RHEL
    sudo yum install php-devel php-mysql gcc libtool

#Suse
    yast2 -i php5-pear php5-devel php5-mysql gcc

#OS X (Using Homebrew)
    brew tap homebrew/dupes
    brew tap homebrew/versions
    brew tap homebrew/php
    brew install php5x php5x-phalcon # Where "x" - minor number of PHP

Compilation

1. To create the extension from C source follow these steps:

git clone --depth=1 git://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon.git
cd cphalcon/build
sudo ./install

2. Add the extension to your php.ini:

extension=phalcon.so

3. Finally, restart the webserver

Debian

There is a repo graciously offered by FortRabbit here

The package name is php5-phalcon

Arch Linux

There is a PKGBUILD for ArchLinux, available here

OpenSUSE

There is a package available here (thanks to Mariusz Łączak)

FreeBSD

A port is available for FreeBSD. You only need these few commands to install it:

# pkg_add -r phalcon

or

# cd /usr/ports/www/phalcon && make install clean

cPanel

After requests from the community, the cPanel developers released a custom module that allows for installation of Phalcon in cPanel hosted sites. Information can be found here. The module is maintained in Github.

Dependencies

Although Phalcon does not binary link to other extensions it does use some of them to offer functionality. The extensions used are:

• mbstring

• mcrypt

• openssl

• PDO

• PDO/Mysql

• PDO/Postgresql

• PDO/Sqlite

• PDO/Oracle

• Mongo

It is not necessary for all the above extensions to be present in the system that has Phalcon installed. You can only install the ones that meet your needs. For instance if you use a MySQL database, then you can only load PDO and PDO/MySQL ignoring the Oracle, SQlite, Postgresql and Mongo.

Need help?

Have a look at our support page for ways to get support. We will do our best to help you.