Re: php-gtk file extension

[I think what we need is a php-gtk install and configuration tool (written in php-gtk).] That would be ideal But I don't see that negates the need for a standard extension regardless , e.g. I have an nsis based php-gtk installer (2 of them in fact (deployed over 80,000 x to date ) and I know that there are other such installers , it would be nice (and less confusing for total noobs) if my installer used the same extensions as everybody else's installer . Now I don't care who's installer peeps (and an official gtk.php.net version would be ideal) use as long as it gets them interested in php-gtk , the current set-up is not good for mainstream win32 users in that I know many otherwise 'experienced' users who get totally confused trying to start a php-gtk application , even the samples that ship and basically just give up before they get hooked , providing standard registry entries to allow point-and-click covers this immediately. [Check to see if php and php-gtk are installed. If not download and install them.] Something you can't do on win32 unless you have some standard method of saying 'php-gtk is installed' , e.g. a known registry key or a known php-gtk.ini file sitting somewhere one may expect to find it. [And the thing with "using dos screens" does nothing have to do with php-gtk, this would be a normal script. I'd propose the context menu "open in dosbox", available to all php-gtk scripts. This would it make easy to debug them if needed but requires no changes to the extension.] I use php-gtk apps in distinctly different ways which is how I got there in the first place though I take your point. So regardless of what may happen in the future with a totally php-gtk based installer whets wrong with a couple of standards now? 1) file extension (s) 2) registry entries ala HKLM/Software/php-gtk [install_dir (x:/wherever)] Like Steph and probably most here I will still mostly use .php files for myself .. but when I deploy (on others machines) I HAVE to give an extension ... I would rather it be one that everyone agrees with. I am finished up phpdev5 now which is more server-oriented and for total noobs , but its going to end up on a lot of machines ... with php-gtk as the 'installer' but still requiring nsis (or similar ) to deploy , it will leave php-gtk on the users machine (sharing as many extensions/dll's as possible) and to date I was going to set the pgtk and dgtk extensions for php-gtk apps ... but as I said before I don't care a kippers what they are called , but it would be nice to use something that everyone was happy with cos I like happy people. ... I think we have run out of useful 3 letter extensions bar rude words which are much better expressed with 4 anyway ;) Regards, Simon.