Desktop Application Development with PHP-GTK
PHP-GTK 2 is out, and with it, a fantastic means for PHP developers to build useful, reliable cross-platform desktop applications. This tutorial will show you how to get up and running with PHP-GTK in no time and build your first desktop application.
Before you continue, have a brief read through my previous article on building desktop applications in PHP, for a bit of background to this tutorial. PHP-GTK is a PHP extension that provides bindings for the GTK window system. GTK, or Gimp ToolKit, provides a collection of visual elements called “controls” which you can use in your PHP application – essentially, these provide the visuals. The PHP bindings from PHP-GTK allow us as developers to manipulate these controls programatically, and from within PHP.
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