PHP in WebAssembly

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PHP is a popular web scripting language. So it is unsurprising that one PHP project attempts to make it possible to run PHP inside of the web browser.

There have been a few iterations of PHP-in-Browser (PIB), but Sean Morris’ PHP-Wasm looks to be the most active.

Uses

Right now, this is specific to the browser environment. The implementation is impressive, as it contains a lot of PHP features such as access to a database (SQLite) and file system access.

Available Implementations

• PHP-Wasm
• The original version of PHP-In-Browser (PIB) was Oraoto’s version
• Another version of PIB is Soyuka’s fork
• wasm32-wasi PHP releases provided by the Wasm Labs team at VMware

Learn More

Here are some great resources:

• Try it out in-browser
• The examples even include running Drupal 7!
• If you are looking for a way to run Wasm inside of PHP, Wasmer has bindings