"PHP-ext" -like PHP widget libraries ?

Question

I've asked a similar question a while back (actually nearly 1 year)...back then I was looking for a good widget library, generated from server-side in PHP. The most interesting candidate I find was PHP-ext, but the project seems pretty much dead.

So one year later, is there any new open source project of that kind ? Or any widget (PHP-driven) that you use and find useful ?

Edit : Just to make it clear, what I'm looking for is a set of standalone (that I can use without having to embrace a whole framework) PHP classes or libraries to handle the generation of client-side (HTML+CSS+JS) widgets.

Answer 1

technically, PHP cannot do "widgets" in itself. You must use a Javascript framework (i.g. JQuery UI) to create the widgets and use PHP to handle the requests between the client and the server. I personally use Zend/ZendX with JQuery and it works fine. It's a big framework for small projects, but still use good coding practices.

In short, I would suggest you use JQuery UI and simply write your requests handlers manually. It's much simpler and concise this way.