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Building Desktop Applications in PHP

By Akash Mehta
2008-02-09

Introduction

So, you’re a hotshot PHP developer. You’ve written a lot of code powering some pretty cool websites; maybe you’ve even written some public / open source scripts that other developers are using. You’ve been through it all with the web, from basic database hacks to battling with inconsistent browser rendering, and now you want to have a go at something different.

Of course, the standard destination would be desktop application development. But how can you get into desktop application development without leaving behind all your existing PHP skills? In this article, I’ll examine the techniques and systems you can use to build desktop applications, from GTK libraries to native Windows API calls.




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