NAME

Plumhead - Introduction

What is Plumhead?

An incomplete implementation of PHP on Parrot. Plumhead is short for Plum-headed Parakeet.

Goals

Provide a side by side comparison for different implementation strategies of PHP on Parrot.

php - the reference implementation PHP 5.2.0

phc - XSLT munges output from phc, started

antlr3 - ANTLR3, converted from languages/bc, started

partridge - Parrot compiler toolchain, started

perl5re - Perl5.10 regexes, planned

Status

36 out of 2692 tests in the PHP 5.2.0 test suite pass for the phc variant.

Dependencies

phc

xsltproc and phc need to be in PATH.

antlr3

java.

perl5re

Perl5.10

Author

Bernhard Schmalhofer - <Bernhard.Schmalhofer@gmx.de>

SEE ALSO

http://rakudo.org/parrot/index.cgi?plumhead

http://phpcompiler.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT

http://search.cpan.org/dist/parrot/docs/glossary.pod

http://perl.overmeer.net/xml-compile/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum-headed_parakeet

http://www.parrotcode.org/docs/compiler_tools.html

http://www.antlr.org/v3/index.html