Running Yii2 on HHVM

HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) is a process virtual machine from Facebook based on just-in-time (JIT) compilation. HHVM transforms PHP code into intermediate HipHop bytecode (HHBC) and dynamically translates PHP code into machine code, which will be optimized and natively executed.

Getting ready

Create a new yii2-app-basic application using the Composer package manager, as described in the official guide at http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guidestart-installation.html.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to run Yii on HHVM:

1. Install the Apache2 or Nginx web server.

2. Follow the guide for installing HHVM on Linux or Mac available at https://docs.hhvm.com/hhvm/installation/introduction. For example, on Ubuntu you must run the following commands:

   sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
   sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 0x5a16e7281be7a449
   sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://dl.hhvm.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main"
   sudo apt-get update...