A PHP Compiler for the .NET Platform

Have you ever thought about programming an applicaton with PHP? One running on.NET and even including a Graphical User Interface? This scenario has been unlikely so far. However, this book turns the tide. It shows you how to translate PHP scripts into.NET assemblies and how to run them on Windows and other operating systems. This book is not about programming web applications; it is about implementing the language PHP for the.NET Platform. Since PHP has become an exciting programming language, it is time for the.NET community to benefit from it. In this spirit, this book was written. Its goal is to make PHP available as further language on the.NET Platform. Thus, software engineers can use PHP as a fully-fledged programming language for developing standalone applications outside of web pages. For this purpose, a compiler is presented that translates PHP scripts into.NET bytecode called Common Intermediate Language (CIL). This book introduces PHP and CIL in detail and also provides a good insight into basics and concepts of compiler construction. Furthermore, it looks behind the scenes of the Microsoft.NET Framework and the Mono Project, which is a considerable open-source implementation of the.NET Platform.