News Archive

17 January 2007. The phc SVN repository is now publicly available. Read the announcement for more details.

8 September 2006. We are delighted to announce the first spin-off based on phc. Written by Daniel Barreiro, it embeds HTML/XML into PHP. See spinoffs for details. In further news, we have released version 0.1.7 as no major programs were reported in 0.1.7rc2, and we have added a new article on writing a reentrant parser with Bison and Flex.

21 July 2006. Fixed a few (minor) user-reported bugs in 0.1.7rc2.

13 July 2006. Released version 0.1.7rc1. We now support extending phc through plugins: it is no longer necessary to re-compile phc to add functionality to it! This also should make binary packages for phc much more useful. See the ChangeLog for more details.

7 July 2006. Bugfix (0.1.6rc2). Scripts with open ended PHP (no closing tag) had an extraneous echo at the end; also, use of identifiers as array indices inside strings caused the identifier to be duplicated in the string to follow the variable access.

4 July 2006. After a long period of no releases, we are happy to announce version 0.1.6rc1. New in this release are an improved tree transformation API, support for pattern matching on AST nodes, an XML unparser, and various other features and bugfixes. As always, see ChangeLog for details.

27 January 2006. Version 0.1.5 did not compile on systems with old versions of Flex. Our apologies. This is solved in 0.1.5.1.

26 January 2006. Version 0.1.5 released. phc is now released under the BSD license. This release also contains numerous minor feature enhancements and bug fixes; see ChangeLog for details.

9 January 2006. Lots of minor feature enhancements. See ChangeLog for details. IMPORTANT: this release is not downwards compatible with the previous!

1 December 2005. Bug fix. Null vectors are now unparsed properly by the dot unparser, and Windows-style line-breaks are handled properly.

17 November 2005. Added functionality to the TreeTransform API to modify the traversal order. See Tutorial 5 for details.

2 November 2005. Bug fix. Strings containing variables were not parsed correctly; corrected in release 0.1.1.

29 September 2005. First release of phc! This release offers the framework for modifying PHP (parser, unparser, tree transformation interface) but as yet nothing else.