swow vs ngx-php

swow

Coroutine-based cross-platform concurrent I/O engine. (by swow)

ngx-php

ngx-php - Embedded php7 or php8 scripting language for nginx module. Mainline development version of the ngx-php. (by rryqszq4)

Nginx PHP Php7 Module nginx-module Php8

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swow		ngx-php
	Project
4	Mentions	4
1,120	Stars	572
1.3%	Growth	-
8.3	Activity	8.8
12 days ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
C	Language	C
Apache License 2.0	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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swow

Posts with mentions or reviews of swow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.

Running PHP with io_uring
3 projects | /r/PHP | 27 Mar 2023
Using PHP as a multiplayer FPS game engine with clients renderer using WebGL
2 projects | /r/PHP | 4 Jan 2023
What third-party extension or library would you like to see included in php as default?
6 projects | /r/PHP | 20 Jan 2022

Why not try swow(https://github.com/swow/swow),the v1.0 will coming soon
Swow a high-performance pure coroutine network communication engine, which based on PHP and C
1 project | /r/programming | 9 Mar 2021

ngx-php

Posts with mentions or reviews of ngx-php. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-10.

Nginx Unit – Universal web app server
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Sep 2023

Two questions:
1. Does Unit + PHP doing the typical “initialize & teardown” that PHP is know for?
Or is Unit persisting the initialization/setup, hence why it’s achieving the way faster results?
2. How is Unit/PHP architecturally different than NGX-PHP (an event loop)?
https://github.com/rryqszq4/ngx-php
I was looking at TechEmpower benchmarks, and noted that PHP performs better than Node, how's that possible?
5 projects | /r/node | 26 Apr 2022

I guess you referring to php-nginx which seems pretty niche.
ngx_php7 - Embedded PHP scripting language for nginx module.
3 projects | /r/PHP | 8 Feb 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing swow and ngx-php you can also consider the following projects:

scalar_objects - Extension that adds support for method calls on primitive types in PHP

nginx-module-vts - Nginx virtual host traffic status module

meinheld - Meinheld is a high performance asynchronous WSGI Web Server (based on picoev)

hyperf - 🚀 A coroutine framework that focuses on hyperspeed and flexibility. Building microservice or middleware with ease.

ext-pmmpthread - Fork of https://github.com/krakjoe/pthreads with a revamped API and PHP 8.1+ support

suhosin7 - Suhosin Extension for PHP 7.x

Serendipity-job - 🚀🐟 Task Platform Developed Based On Swow and Php8 ｜基于swow和php8开发的任务平台

ngx_http_proxy_connect_module - A forward proxy module for CONNECT request handling

starlark-go - Starlark in Go: the Starlark configuration language, implemented in Go

caddy-l4 - Layer 4 (TCP/UDP) app for Caddy

ngx_healthcheck_module - nginx module for upstream servers health check. support stream and http upstream. 该模块可以为Nginx提供主动式后端服务器健康检查的功能（同时支持四层和七层后端服务器的健康检测）

cobol-on-wheelchair - Micro web-framework for COBOL