Run Phalcon PHP Framework on Hostgator Shared Hosting Account for PHP 5.3, 5.4 , and 5.5

I received an email from Hostgator that now they provide PHP version 5.3, 5.4 , and 5.5 in my hosting machine.

So I went ahead to enable Phalcon on each of the PHP versions, compiled Phalcon module for each PHP version in my Virualbox CentOS linux.

I noticed that the Phalcon uses much less memory under 5.4 and 5.5. It uses like 1.5 MB under 5.3, and now it uses 800K memory space. Cool!

Speedwise, I can hardly notice much differences, but it did feel that 5.4 and 5.5 are faster than 5.3.

I am sharing them with you! Please enjoy.

Here is working demo of Album O’ Rama demo app.

[How to use.]

1. Unzip the zip file into a folder. This will be the custom path to store php.ini file. The Phalcon module so file is located under the ext folder.

Let’s say the full path of the folder is /home/chris123/php54.

2. Edit the php.ini file and Update the extension path of the phalcon module at the very last line.

extension=/home/chris123/php54/ext/phalcon131_php54.so

3. Copy the .htaccess file into the root path of your Phalcon application. Make sure that you point the suPHP_ConfigPath to the path where our custom php.ini is located.

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php54 .php
 
<IfModule mod_suphp.c>
        suPHP_ConfigPath /home/chris123/php54
        <Files php.ini>
                order allow,deny
                deny from all
        </Files>
</IfModule>

Thanks!

Phalcon 1.3.1 PHP module for PHP 5.3 under Linux x86_64
Phalcon 1.3.1 PHP module for PHP 5.4 under Linux x86_64
Phalcon 1.3.1 PHP module for PHP 5.5 under Linux x86_64