OpenGL in PHP

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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Neat, Yet Misused

[mfh]

I'm sorry but I have to reject the idea of running openGL with PHP. The concept makes about as much sense as using Flash intros.

However I will add that there is a neato factor to all this, but it only goes so far. It's just silly to allow the unwashed masses access to this kind of technology because it's going to end up like Flash anims, and further plague our internet with CRAP.

Not portable

[xynopsis]

Although a cool hack, this is limited only to the Windows platform:
$w32->RegisterWindowClass( $classname );