Herman Venter
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Debugger tests that run hphp in non local mode (i.e. with the "-h some-server:some-port" option specified) currently use a clunky specialized C++ test harness that invokes PHP scripts that talk to the debugger client via the obsolete client API. This revision moves those tests to the new PHP only framework. The debugger client is now controlled by piping in commands, just like the other debugger tests. The main difference is that the debugger client is connected to a server instance and a separate PHP driver is used to load the server, load the client, and then load pages from the server so that the client can hit breakpoints. It also checks that the client can respond to ctrl-c by actually sending a SIGINT signal to the client process.
HipHop VM for PHP 
HipHop VM (HHVM) is a new open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in PHP. HHVM uses a just-in-time compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the flexibility that PHP developers are accustomed to. HipHop VM (and before it HPHPc) has realized > 5x increase in throughput for Facebook compared with Zend PHP 5.2.
HipHop is most commonly run as a standalone server, replacing both Apache and modphp.
Installing
You can install a prebuilt package or compile from source.
Running
You can run standalone programs just by passing them to hhvm: hhvm my_script.php.
HipHop bundles in a webserver. So if you want to run on port 80 in the current directory:
sudo hhvm -m server
For anything more complicated, you'll want to make a config.hdf and run sudo hhvm -m server -c config.hdf.
Contributing
We'd love to have your help in making HipHop better. If you run into problems, please open an issue, or better yet, fork us and send a pull request. Join us on #hhvm on freenode.
If you want to help but don't know where to start, try fixing some of the Zend tests that don't pass. You can run them with hphp/test/run. When they work, move them to zend/good and send a pull request.
Before changes can be accepted a Contributors Licensing Agreement (pdf - print, sign, scan, link) must be signed.
Licence
HipHop VM is licensed under the PHP and Zend licenses except as otherwise noted.