Does anybody know of a reliable, well-made tool for creating standalone desktop applications complete with GUI, using just PHP, or primarily PHP? I enjoy the R.A.D. and many other aspects of PHP and would like to use it for some non server/client projects.
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There is Delphi for PHP but it appears to be fashioned for web development.
mozillalives
2010-03-12 20:36:07
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Yes!
Roadsend PHP
http://www.roadsend.com/home/index.php?pageID=compiler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadsend_PHP
More information from the Roadsend site:
Build Stand Alone Applications From Standard PHP Source Code
Roadsend compiles your PHP project to a single, native binary which does not require an interpreter. Roadsend builds online web applications with FastCGI, offline web applications with an embedded web server (MicroServer), desktop GUI applications with PHP-GTK, and more! Supports Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X.
NEW: PHP 5 compatible since version 2.9.3
Roadsend Studio IDE
Roadsend Studio helps you manage, build, debug and deploy your PHP projects with the Roadsend Compiler. It automatically deploys a finished project to a directory (included supporting libraries), ready for packaging. It examines your code as you type, has early syntax error recognition, auto method and property completion and auto parameter help. Full syntax highlighting editor, project source file manager, step debugger and compiling and interpreting of projects (including GUI apps) from within the IDE.
Compile Web Applications
Compile web applications for both on- and offline use. Online web applications use the standard FastCGI interface for communicating with industry standard web servers such as Apache and Microsoft IIS. Offline web applications use the MicroServer embedded web server, which allows you to run an web application as a stand alone program.
Compile Desktop GUI Applications The Roadsend Compiler uses the GTK library for cross platform operability. It supports the Glade user interface builder and is compatible with the PHP-GTK 1 API.
Debugger
Roadsend Compiler includes a step debugger which allows you to step line by line through your source. You have the ability to set breakpoints by source file or line number, pause a running program, inspect local variables and inspect the call stack.
NEW: Step debug web applications!
Brian Lacy
2010-03-12 21:23:06
And for the record I have NO connection to the Roadsend project, but I don't feel bad posting what amounts to a marketing spiel, because it's a GPL project and seems fairly well supported. I won't claim that it's great to work with -- I frankly have no idea, as I've downloaded and perused their solution but never actually built anything with it.
Brian Lacy
2010-03-12 23:29:36
Their GUI Features don't seem to be available under Windows yet. :(
Joshua
2010-03-13 01:02:08