Facebook goes opensource on php developer tools

Facebook has released a php wrapper called PhPEmbed, under the BSD license.

Boz @ Facebook has a basic overview.

• “Despite its suitability for web development and scripting, PHP is generally not the best choice for standalone software or servers. C++, on the other hand, is well suited for building both online and offline services.”
• “Faced with this problem we decided to embed the PHP Interpreter into C++ binaries. “
• “In order to make embedding PHP truly simple for all of our developers we developed the PHPEmbed library which is just a more accessible and simplified API built on top of the PHP SAPI”

It was originally developed for use in the news feed, but has since been included in other applications.

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