mal/impls/php

Running .mal scripts on PHP hosting

Create a symlink to mal-web.php with the same name as your .mal script and your script will be executed as if it was PHP.

Here's an example using local dev.

First build mal-web.php:

cd mal/php
make mal-web.php

Now you can create a web runnable mal script:

echo '(println "Hello world!")' > myscript.mal
ln -s mal-web.php myscript.php

Start a development server with php -S 0.0.0.0:8000 and then browse to http://localhost:8000/myscript.php and you should see "Hello world!" in your browser as myscript.mal is run.

You can do the same thing on live PHP web hosting by copying mal.php up and creating a symlink for each .mal file you want to be web-executable.

PHP interop

In stepA_mal.mal you can find some examples of PHP interop.

Eval PHP code:

(php* "return 7;")
7

(php* "return array(7,8,9);")
(7 8 9)

Native function call:

(php/date "Y-m-d" 0)
"1970-01-01"

Accessing PHP "superglobal" variables:

(get php/_SERVER "PHP_SELF")
"./mal"