NAME

Plumhead - Introduction

What is Plumhead?

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

Goals

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

php - the reference implementation PHP 5.2.0

phc - take XML output from phc and munge it with XSLT

antlr3 - ANTLR3, converted from languages/bc, started

pct - Parrot compiler toolkit

yacc - with lex and yacc, 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

ANTLR3 generating Java code.

yacc

lex and yacc, or flex and bison

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