A PHP Compiler for the .NET Platform

Have you ever thought about programming a .NET applicaton with PHP? Onethat also includes a Graphical User Interface? Such a scenario has beenunlikely so far but this book turns the tide. It shows you how to translatePHP scripts into .NET assemblies and how to run them on Windows and otheroperating systems.Since PHP has become an exciting programming language it is time for the .NET community to benefit from it. The focus of this book is not aboutprogramming web applications; it is about implementing the language PHPas for the .NET Platform and how to integrate it with other .NET languages.Thus software engineers can use PHP as a fully-fledged programminglanguage for developing standalone applications outside of web pages.For this purpose a compiler is presented that translates PHP scripts into .NETbytecode called Common Intermediate Language (CIL). This book alsointroduces PHP and CIL in detail and provides a good insight into basics andconcepts of compiler construction. Furthermore it looks behind the scenes ofthe Microsoft .NET Framework and the Mono Project which is a considerableopen-source implementation of the .NET Platform.