HI Rafael, I am happy to here that you guys are working on this. I once thought of writing such a solution myself for PHP when I learnt it compiled c. However, I could not manage time. I am positive it will be useful.
NVM< I don't know why Google has marked your email as spam. Likely, that's why, you have not been responded as yet. Best On 12/22/22, Rafael Fernández López <rfernand...@vmware.com> wrote: > Hello community, > > I am reaching out on behalf of the WasmLabs team at the Office of the CTO at > VMware. > > We have been working on building PHP for WebAssembly, specifically for the > wasm32-wasi target. WASI [1] is a system interface that allows WebAssembly > to run on the server side by safely being able to access operating > system-like features, including files and filesystems, Berkeley sockets, > clocks and random numbers [2]. > > WebAssembly in the server side is experiencing a big growth both in interest > and users. There are other programming language interpreters that can be > compiled to wasm32-wasi as of today; for example: Python [3] and Ruby [4]. > > We have patches for PHP 7.3.33 and 7.4.32 at the time of writing. Porting > PHP 8.2.0 is work in progress at this time. > > In the interest of getting feedback from the PHP community I am providing > links to the patches at GitHub. Please, let us know what would be the next > step to contribute and continue to maintain this work upstream. We look > forward to work with the PHP community. > > If you want to try it out, you can download the binaries we are producing in > the CI/CD pipeline for 7.3.33 [5] and 7.4.32 [6]. You can use a WASI-enabled > WebAssembly runtime such as Wasmtime [7] to run PHP compiled to > wasm32-wasi. > > Patches: 7.3.33 [8], 7.4.32 [9][10]. > > Example execution: > > ``` > $ wasmtime -- --dir ~/php-example php-cgi-7.4.32.wasm > ~/php-example/hello/index.php > X-Powered-By: PHP/7.4.32 > Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 > > Hello, world! > ``` > > We have already presented some of this work at OSS conferences and events > like Kubecon and Docker Community days, and have written a few articles > providing the background to the port, its limitations and what can currently > be accomplished (including running WordPress!). Please find below some links > to the talks and articles: > > - Porting PHP to WebAssembly using WASI [11] > - Running WordPress with WebAssembly using mod_wasm and Apache [12] > - WebAssembly: Docker without containers! [13] > - mod_wasm: Bringing WebAssembly to Apache [14]: this talk builds on top of > PHP 7.3.33 and shows WordPress running with sqlite on top of Apache, thanks > to an Apache module (mod_wasm) that is able to execute WebAssembly modules. > - Docker and WebAssembly, better together [15]: this presentation features > PHP 7.4.32 and explains a bit of the context of this work. > > > Thank you, > Rafael Fernández López. > > [1] https://wasi.dev/ > [2] > https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/03463458e426d4bd0601ebd82e95b668fc982443/docs/WASI-intro.md > [3] https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.11.html > [4] https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/12/06/ruby-3-2-0-rc1-released/ > [5] > https://github.com/vmware-labs/webassembly-language-runtimes/releases/tag/php%2F7.3.33%2B20221124-2159d1c > [6] > https://github.com/vmware-labs/webassembly-language-runtimes/releases/tag/php%2F7.4.32%2B20221124-2159d1c > [7] https://wasmtime.dev/ > [8] > https://github.com/vmware-labs/webassembly-language-runtimes/tree/main/php/php-7.3.33/patches > [9] > https://github.com/vmware-labs/webassembly-language-runtimes/blob/main/php/php-7.4.32/patches/0001-Initial-port-of-7.3.33-patch-to-7.4.32.patch > [10] > https://github.com/vmware-labs/webassembly-language-runtimes/blob/main/php/php-7.4.32/patches/0002-Fix-mmap-issues.-Add-readme.patch > [11] https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/php-wasm32-wasi-port/ > [12] https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/running-wordpress-with-mod-wasm/ > [13] https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/docker-without-containers/ > [14] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXe8kulUscQ > [15] https://youtu.be/yo30oF1Gflo?t=7361 > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
