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@php-wasm/node
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This package ships WebAssembly PHP binaries and the JavaScript API optimized for Node.js. It comes with the following PHP extensions:
It uses the host filesystem directly and can access the network if you plug in a custom WS proxy.
Here's how to use it:
import { PHP } from '@php-wasm/universal';
import { loadNodeRuntime } from '@php-wasm/node';
const php = new PHP(await loadNodeRuntime('8.3'));
const output = await php.run({
code: '<?php phpinfo(); ?>',
});
console.log(response.text);
@php-wasm/node started as a fork of the original PHP to WebAssembly build published by Oraoto in https://github.com/oraoto/pib and modified by Sean Morris in https://github.com/seanmorris/php-wasm.
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PHP.wasm for Node.js
The npm package @php-wasm/node receives a total of 3,999 weekly downloads. As such, @php-wasm/node popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @php-wasm/node demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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