Is swoole a framework?

The swoole has two parts. One is a PHP extension, developed in C, which is the core. The other is a framework, like Yii, TP, and Laravel, which is written in PHP code.

The swoole extension itself provides web server functionality and can replace php-fpm. And if you only use the swoole framework, it can run in web servers such as nignx and apache like other PHP frameworks.

The swoole framework, like the PHP framework, is suitable for web development. The swoole extension provides a lower-level server communication mechanism, which can use UDP, TCP and other protocols, not just http.

The installation method is also different. The swoole extension is installed like other PHP extensions. You can use pecl or compile and install it. The swoole framework can be installed after being introduced with composer, or you can manually include/require after downloading the source code.

In addition, the swoole framework relies on the swoole extension and is an application example of the swoole extension.

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