Is PHP compiled or interpreted?

Basically, PHP is interpreted, but PHP is compiled to intermediate bytecode which is then interpreted by the runtime Zend engine.

The PHP compiler is responsible for

• Converting the code into bytecode that can be used by the runtime engine.
• Parse functions, names and class names
• Create symbol table

PHP interpreter

• Traverse the bytecode line by line and Execution
• Handling runtime exception

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