Re: PHP-Gtk2 installer / extension problem

With all respect to Frank , most windows users like thier extensions! What has confuddled and alienated many potential new (win32) php-gtk users is simply running the apps in the first place. How many potential new users downloaded php-gtk and never even managed to get the samples working ? I suspect many more than you think ... I know lots of them ;) How many more got the samples working then realised thier local apache/php installation no longer worked ? (a different issue but anyway) I hate messing with anybody elses registry , but file association is not hard with NSIS-like installers & even win32_std etc can mess with the registry in a 'pure' PHP installer. I like .phpw + I still like the phpx:// protocol for win32 which nobody seemed interested in & which I would advocate further if I were not so unsure of the security concerns... with such you could run a php-gtk app from the command prompt , a shortcut , windows explorer , IE address bar etc even <a href="phpx://my_app">my_app</a> , sadly so can any web page ~ Regardless I think there should be some direction from somewhere on this matter if only as guidelines for those of us who make installers , I suspect there will be many more such systems for PHP-GTK2 and a multitude of differing approaches will be counter-productive for PHP-GTK. Most of all , I think ignoring the issue ( I understand & accept that not all think it IS an issue ) and leaving it as simple .php files is a mistake. Regards, Simon [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\phpx] @="\"URL:PHP Protocol\"" "URL Protocol"="\"\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\phpx\shell] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\phpx\shell\open] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\phpx\shell\open\command] @="F:/phpdev/php/php-4.3.8/php_win.exe -q -c f:/windows/php.ini.438 -f e:/phpdev/www/strapper.php %1" where strapper.php simply validates and exec()s %1 ............................................................................ ............................................................................ ............................. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Weiske" <cweiske@cweiske.de> To: "Frank M. Kromann" <frank@kromann.info>; "PHP-GTK Dev list" <php-gtk-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 5:13 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-GTK-DEV] PHP-Gtk2 installer / extension problem >Hi, >> Thats not exactly correct. .com files are loaded into a fixed memory >> position, and replaces the command intepreter on load. where .exe files >> can be loaded into any memory location, and moved arround (no absolute >> jumps). >Ok, I give up. >Just remembered that I had many .com apps in my DOS days, and nearly >none today. >So we use .php as normal file extension for php-gtk applications, and >associate them with php. Ok. >Regards/MfG, >Christian Weiske >-- >XMMS is playing now: >Dido - Stoned