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Skinnable, Portable Desktop Apps In PHP

Posted by timothy on from the leopard-spots dept.

joeldg writes "With the new Zend coding contest getting underway, a lot of PHP coders are hacking out some amazing new test code. In that vein and in response to the lack of skinning with PHP-GTK apps, I just finished up writing a tutorial with source code for doing skinnable desktop applications in PHP that run on both Linux and Windows."

2 of 36 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Would it be that much of a intellectual hurdle to switch to Perl, where you can leverage CPAN? You know, the whole "right tool, right job" mantra?

    Syntatically they might as well be the same langauge except the hash and array symbols.

  2. Re:Slashdot by turnin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    >in-appropriate php apps
    you are correct, BUT, the struggle for existence will force us to take many directions, independent of the appropriateness.
    The struggle here is to find a means to deliver apps on to multiple platforms(OSs).
    Existence of such a means are getting closed, due to *PURE* commercial interests.
    The developers are finding those means for their better life, appropriate or in-appropriate doesn't matter here.