phpreboot - A reboot of PHP: keep the philosophy, improve the syntax

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GNU Lesser GPL
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PHP, reboot, dynamic, language, programming

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I've written that language to make you awesome.
-- the author

PHP.reboot is a reboot of PHP, each Hollywood movie has its own reboot, why not doing the same for one of the most popular programming language. The aim is to keep the philosophy of PHP but adapt it to be more in sync with the Web of 2010.

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Highlights:

less $, less ';' like in javascript
secure by default: no eval, no magic quotes/string interpolation
full unicode support
no from/to string auto-conversion
XML literal
JSON literal
a SQL compatible syntax
XPath/XQuery compatible syntax
Perl 5 regex literal
URI/file literal
a dynamic language with duck typing and a gradual type system
fast as Java thanks to a runtime profiler/optimizer and JSR 292 API
provide an embedded database derby and a standalone web server grizzly by default
can run on top of any JEE stacks, or android, it's a JVM language !

PHP.reboot works this latest beta release of jdk7. Or with any java6 jdks thanks to the jsr292-backport.

But because some samples are better than long a speech:

native XML syntax

<html>
 <title>hello PHP.reboot</title>
 <body>
   <h1>
    {
      echo "Hello World !"
    }
   </h1>
 </body>
</html>

Language as close as possible to PHP

function fibo(a) {
  if (a == 0)
    return 1
  elseif (a == 1)
    return 1
  else
    return fibo(a - 1) + fibo(a - 2)
}

echo fibo(7)

native SQL syntax

create table foo (
  id integer not null,
  name varchar(64),
  primary key(id)
)
insert into foo (id, name) values (4, 'hooooooa');

a SQL query can use any variables

n = 3
a = select name from foo where id < $n
foreach(a as key: value) {
  echo "row: " + key + " name: " + value.name
}

XML and SQL can be mixed together

<html>
 <body>
  <ol>
   {
     resultset = select * from foo where name = 'bar'
     foreach(resultset as value)
     {
       echo <li>$(value.name)</li>
     }
   }
  </ol>
 </body>
</html>

native JSON syntax

persons = [
 {
  "name": "Smith",
  "age": 20,
  "color": "blue" 
 },
 {
  "name": "Wesson",
  "age": 17,
  "color": "red" 
 }
]
 
foreach(persons as person) {
  echo "Name:" + person.name
  echo "Color:" + person.color
}

native URI (here http) and XQuery

result = document(http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=Java)

titles = for node in result//entry/title
           return node  
           
<news>
 {
   foreach(titles as title) {
     title.name = "description"
     echo title
   }
 }
</news>

it also quacks like a duck

ducks = []
add(ducks, "quack")   // non empty string
add(ducks, [])        // empty array

foreach(ducks as duck) {
  echo isEmpty(duck)
}         
    
// prints false
// prints true

More samples ...

The main grammar is available here and the SQL DSL is available here.

What's missing ?

contributors
embedded syntax for Path/URI and XQuery
an eclipse/netbeans plugin
ports of all useful PHP functions