I am doing it for learning purpose. I have gone through many articles that php first convert its source code to bytecode, but i am not able to find a way to see the bytecode for
To turn PHP code into a list of opcodes, you can use vld, the "Vulcan Logic Dumper" (available on GitHub and PECL).
The PHP documentation also maintains a list of opcodes.
Also available is 3v4l.org, which allows you to input PHP code and view part of the vld
dump on its results page.
I think this might help you : https://github.com/facebook/hhvm
or search for facebook hiphop.