Getting Started

After reading this page, you should be able to start using J4P5 for your own PHP projects.

(This assumes you already have php 5 installed and working on your system.)

1. Unzip J4P5 somewhere under your web document tree. This should create a directory called "js" in the location you picked.
2. Create a new php file in the same location, for example "test.php"
3. Copy the following into the file:
   <?php
   include "js/js.php";
   
   $script = <<<EOD
   
   print("Hello from JavaScript<br>");
   
   EOD;
   
   js::run($script);
   
   ?>
   
4. Save your file, and load it in your browser.

Notes:

The parser is extremely slow at this point. My Athlon 64 3200+ takes 4 full seconds of CPU time to parse anything.

the interpreter attempts to speed up the script execution by caching compiled scripts in a temporary directory.