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Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? [message #180381 is a reply to message #180326] Tue, 05 February 2013 16:51 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On 2013-02-05 09:26:06 +0000, crankypuss said:

> On 02/04/2013 09:08 AM, crankypuss wrote:
>> On 02/04/2013 02:29 AM, Arno Welzel wrote:
>>> Am 04.02.2013 10:04, schrieb Tim Streater:
>>>
>>>> In article <510F6570(dot)8060103(at)arnowelzel(dot)de>,
>>>> Arno Welzel <usenet(at)arnowelzel(dot)de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > crankypuss, 2013-02-02 21:27:
>>>> >
>>>> > [...]
>>>> >> Is there a forum where the other folks (presuming there are any) who
>>>> >> have been writing applications in PHP hang out? Don't say "yeah
>>>> > dummy,
>>>> >> go to comp.lang.python" please, my homor quotient is maxed out for
>>>> >> today. <g>
>>>> >
>>>> > Maybe <http://gtk.php.net/> is what you are looking for.
>>>>
>>>> Website hasn't been updated for three years.
>>>
>>> I know - but this is everything i'm aware of for building "standalone"
>>> applications with a GUI. If you can recommend something better - feel
>>> free to do so. Maybe the OP will understand, why using PHP for this
>>> purpose is not the best idea ;-)
>>
>> Sometimes it's hard for me to grasp the idea that most people just use
>> whatever is sitting on the shelf and would never consider the idea of
>> building something else; usually it's at least as difficult for them to
>> grasp the idea that for me applications are not half as interesting as
>> the tools that enable them. See, I don't *care* what's available this
>> week for writing standalone apps under PHP, what I mostly care about is
>> what the underlying operating system will support reliably and what the
>> PHP language itself is capable of.
>>
>> The original post didn't ask for someone to help a poor weenie build
>> desktop applications in PHP, it asked who else is writing Linux or
>> cross-system applications in PHP, with perhaps some hope of finding out
>> where they're discussing it.
>>
>> So far the answer is "no, we're using stuff we think is easier" with the
>> possibility that M. Strobel is also engaged in this bizarre activity
>> (though he didn't say yea or nay but commented on its applicability).
>
> ... Jason Betts seems to be using PHP for desktop applications but
> through a java front-end? And perhaps Tim Streater is doing something
> with it too.
>
> Not a whole huge mob of folks. <g>


I would suggest using python. I programmed php for 5 years now, and
after I learned python, I don't use php for other than web
programming.. python works great with GUI too.. IIRC it has gtk, qt and
wx support.

java also works, but can maybe be a bit complicated.


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Regards,
Meeh
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