Add support for the Phalcon framework about bref

[mnapoli]

Good idea! From their documentation it seems to be simpler: https://docs.phalconphp.com/fr/3.3/installation#installation-sources

git clone https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon
cd cphalcon/build
sudo ./install

Extensions (*.so files) are then copied to be packaged with Bref, see https://github.com/mnapoli/bref/blob/master/bin/php/build.sh#L32 You can try to give it a go, this is the script used to create the Bref archive. For your tests just comment out the aws s3 copy line because you will not be able to upload the archive on the S3 bucket.

[gregmsanderson]

Thanks, I'll give that a try. It would be nicer to not have to re-compile Phalcon on every deploy, if that's what would happen if I added it to that build.sh.

I wonder if I could compile it once, making the phalcon.so, then check for its existence. Only if it doesn't exist, compile it.

[mnapoli]

The Dockerfile and build.sh in this repository are not executed for users. They are executed once to build the PHP binary and its extensions, it's all zipped and uploaded to a S3 bucket that I own.

Then when users do bref deploy it downloads the zip, unzip it and deploys the lambda with the PHP binary and the extensions.

So it's not recompiled every time.

[gregmsanderson]

Ah ... so it would only compile once. Awesome!

[gregmsanderson]

Yeah ... this likely isn't going to work.

I managed to create a custom PHP binary and got it to compile Phalcon by modifying the Dockerfile. So it had the phalcon.so extension. However to then make that work with bref, it seems you need an adapter for each framework. And Phalcon has yet to support PSR 7 and so I assume that is not possible. Since that seems to be the basis of the other adapters. So looks like Phalcon can't be supported.

[mnapoli]

Right not easy! I did write a bridge for Laravel and Symfony, for example: https://github.com/mnapoli/bref/tree/master/src/Bridge/Symfony Those do not support PSR-7. That wasn't easy because it was like moving in the dark.

[gregmsanderson]

I saw, yes. But i can't see how to make similar ones for Phalcon. I had hoped it would be similar, but seems not. I did locate this: https://github.com/codeup-berlin/phalcon-psr which seems to be along similar lines, adapting it, however there is no explanation of how to use it.

[mnapoli]

Looking back on this issue for now I'll close this as I do not intend to add support for Phalcon. If anyone is interested to work on this please let me know here.

I would be okay for supporting it if it doesn't impact the current tooling/architecture too heavily.