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OpenGL in PHP

Posted by michael on from the they-said-it-couldn't-be-done dept.

Neophytus writes "Submitted as an entry into the .geek PHP5 tournament a proof of concept openGL implementation in PHP has been released by Peter 'iridium' Waller. The demonstration (download) shows four items being rendered in realtime by PHP at a not unreasonable 59FPS. The author welcomes feedback with practical uses for this technology." Update: 06/09 01:10 GMT by T : iridiumz0r, author of this entry, adds a link to this informative page responding to a number of comments in the discussion below.

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  1. Correct me if I'm wrong, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This actually isn't an "OpenGL implementation". It just calls OpenGL func in win32 environment.

  2. This is NOT Server-side by cbrocious · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just from reading a few comments, I see people still believe PHP is only server-side. This is all client-side. No server is neccesary. This is just like php-gtk, and the old php_opengl implimentation.

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  3. Re:PHP OpenGL on SourceForge by iridiumz0r · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm the author of this thing. I read slashdot quite regularly and I'm very suprised this found it's way here. In my opinion it is not slashdot worthy. It relies on lots of experimental stuff, and is just generally not up to production standard. It was my mess-around one afternoon when I should have been studying. I entered it into the competition because I wanted to do something different. I chose intentionally not to use PHP-GTK for various reasons. I wanted to start out from scratch and see if I can do everything myself. It was not my intention to do this all 'properly' as such.