Re: Totally Blue Sky

Have you looked at http://gtk.php.net/? Maybe that's what you need. Edin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gre7g Luterman" <gre7g@wolfhome.com> To: <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:43 PM Subject: [PHP-DEV] Totally Blue Sky > Situation: > > PHP is the greatest damned language I've ever used. With PHP and a > database on the back-end, and a decent browser capable of running > Javascript/JScript on the front end, you can create beautiful, > seamless web applications with so little work that it almost seems > like cheating. > > > Problem: > > If you don't want your application to be just a web application, then > you're stuck using some other relatively stinky language. <Shudders > while thinking back to the days when you had to write thousands of > lines of code just to put some graphics on the screen or open a > socket to a web server> > > > Variation on a theme: > > I'd love to be able to create a PHP Windows .exe that installed just > like a regular application. This ideal program would run just like > an application too. You'd launch it and it would open an application > window, but the window contents would be the current web browser > installed on the system, pointed to the index.php page in your newly > installed application's directory. > > In other words, it would be like installing a PHP-enabled webserver > whose output could only go to the application's main and child > windows (if any). > > I do NOT want to require the user to install a webserver and I do NOT > want the server to keep running after the application has quit, but I > would LOVE to be able to do basic application type actions like > saving files without having to resort to lame, bloated, miscarriages > like signed Java applets. Also, I would LOVE to be able to simply > create user interfaces without writing tons of code like in Visual > C++. Admittedly, Visual BASIC is similar in purpose here, but as we > all know, VB ain't got nothin' on PHP. > > > Questions: > > [1] Does such a beast exist? > [2] Can anyone think of a fundamental reason why we couldn't do such > a thing? > [3] Is the general consensus that this would be a handy thing to > have, or is it just me? > > > Please be kind with the flames, I'm new here... > Gre7g. > > ================================================================= > Gre7g Luterman gre7g@wolfhome.com > http://www.templeofluna.com/ > Stay informed: > http://www.templeofluna.com/keeper/mailinglist.htm > > I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather > ...not screaming in terror like his passengers. > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >