This tutorial is oriented to an intermediate/advanced audience. We'll explain how to create a custom model's initializer via annotations that can be easily modified/adapted to initialize collections, plugins, etc.

UPDATE: Although write Phalcon in Assembler may be challenging, we regret to inform you that this was our April Fools' joke, thanks for your great sense of humor! :)

Friends around the world, we're very proud and excited to announce that Phalcon 1.0 is ready for you!

We're are releasing today the beta version of Phalcon 1.0.0. Our goal is to get this version out to the community so as to discover bugs and get feedback. This post highlights some of the more important features introduced in this release:

This is a short post to remind you that Phalcon 0.9.0 is officially supported by Fortrabbit. So if you need to install applications created in Phalcon, you can take advantage of this provider.

We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Phalcon Framework 0.9.0 stable!

Phalcon now has a discussion forum!

We are happy to announce the release of Phalcon 0.9.0 Beta. This new release follows our roadmap, introducing features mostly requested by our community. We thank everyone that has been involved by providing input and helping with testing and finding bugs.

As we gradually get closer to Phalcon 1.0, we have introduced in each version more and more features, stabilizing the framework consistently without losing performance. Many of you have provided feedback and requested new features that have been implemented in each release or are soon to be implemented. Once again, a b…