
There is a good tutorial on DigitalOcean to help you get set up if needed. If you are following along, I assume you already have your server set up with the LAMP stack (Apache, MySQL and PHP). In this article we will look at how to get started with Phalcon on your VPS running Ubuntu 12.04. It is in fact a PHP extension written in C. The reason is that it is not your ordinary PHP framework whose files you just copy onto your server and you are good to go.

One cool thing about it is that performance-wise, it is arguably much faster than other frameworks out there. Phalcon is a PHP framework that promotes the Model-View-Controller architecture and has many framework-like features you’d expect in a piece of software like this - ORM, templating engine, routing, caching, etc. You can use the search functionality at the top of the page to find a more recent version. If available, we strongly recommend using a guide written for the version of Ubuntu you are using. This guide might still be useful as a reference, but may not work on other Ubuntu releases. Reason: Ubuntu 12.04 reached end of life (EOL) on Apand no longer receives security patches or updates. Migrate the server data to a supported version.Upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 16.04.If you are currently operate a server running Ubuntu 12.04, we highly recommend upgrading or migrating to a supported version of Ubuntu: This article covers a version of Ubuntu that is no longer supported.
