Application programming with PHP and GTK+/Win32 API

Mistrel · Post by **Mistrel** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:00 pm

Does anyone else find this to be hilarious? Some people will use PHP for anything.

http://gtk.php.net/
http://winbinder.org/

garretthylltun · Post by **garretthylltun** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:31 pm

I believe there's things like this for even perl.

Irene · Post by **Irene** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:12 pm

garretthylltun wrote:I believe there's things like this for even perl.

You are right about that, but to quote Wikipedia: "in computer programming, Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language." Perl is designed to be modular; you can use it virtually anywhere you like.

PHP on the other hand originally stood for "Personal Home Page". Nowadays it stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". It was and still is designed primarily for the use in web applications. Therefore in contrast to Perl (or any other programming language like Python), it is a little surprising to see how it is possible to adapt PHP to produce non-web applications.

Cheers, Irene.

Post by **idle** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:42 am

They're creating a procedural counterpart to other scripting tools such as tcl and python.

garretthylltun · Post by **garretthylltun** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:27 am

Interesting none the less though. I passed that stuff onto some friends I know who are into PHP.

Thanks for posting the info.

John Spikowski · Post by **John Spikowski** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:20 pm

Check out www.gtk-server.org for a fast and easy way to add Gtk funtionality to your applications. (compilers, interpreters and scripting environments)

We use it with ScriptBasic as an extension module. Here is an example on All Basic for the last code challenge.

http://www.allbasic.info/forum/index.php?topic=292.0

John