Building Desktop Applications in PHP

By Akash Mehta
2008-02-09


Further reading

So, we've examined the fundamentals of desktop application development, and taken a look at the PHP-GTK library. We've seen a very basic desktop application written in PHP, and examined the systems under the hood to keep everything running smoothly. The PHP-GTK documentation contains some fatnastic tutorials, so for further reading it should certainly be your first destination. Here are some useful resources you can use to further investigate desktop application development in PHP:

• Official manual for PHP-GTK 2
• Advanced Hello World tutorial, including a login form
• Using Glade, a WYSIWYG UI designer, to design your forms
• Tutorial on using the GtkTreeView widget

You might find general tutorials on GTK useful as well; for example, the GtkTreeView tutorial is based on a similar version for Python's PyGtk. Explore the different options available; binding to events is certainly something to look into. If you find you have trouble understanding the basics of desktop applications, consider reading through some old Visual Basic 6 tutorials; while outdated, they're still a great way to understand the basics of event-driven desktop applications.

Tutorial Pages:
» Introduction
» Fundamentals
» Benefits of desktop development
» Building desktop applications in PHP
» Further reading

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