Is there an iOS7 App package to create PHP running Apps?

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Is there an iOS7 App package to create PHP running Apps?

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We have found a package called PHONE GAP, but this is HTML only, not dynamic.
We don't want it to be fully Mobile/Wifi data driven, as it needs to be "all encompassing". So for example, we upload the latest info to the App (which now can be done on iOS7 without the user manually updating their app.

Is there a software or site where you can create Apps that use PHP?
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You can't make a mobile app that runs on the client with PHP.
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Blast. Ok thanks.
How do these APPs work that have database and dynamic content then?
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They need a data connection to do API calls to their server over the Internet.
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But not via PHP?
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The app can't use PHP but your server certainly can.
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I've heard about Xcode, but apparently it is for use only on a Mac, which for us Windows developers is useless.

I don't mind learning some WYSIWYG software to understand how to do database connections and so on, for App use, but cannot find any software that does all that.

The one mentioned above seem to be only for Static content apps.
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simonmlewis wrote:I don't mind learning some WYSIWYG software to understand how to do database connections and so on, for App use, but cannot find any software that does all that.
And you won't. Your only option short of learning how to program apps and build a secure API is to provide a webpage for iOS users to browse to and then access your database.
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But that wouldn't be an app - that would be an App link, to a web site in Safari... wouldn't it ?
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"App Link?" I don't know what that is. It would just be a link they would click on when browsing your site with their default browser. Perhaps if you outlined what you are trying to do we could help more.
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Ok.
We have a fully functional mobile web site.
But we like the idea of an App which does pretty much the same. Think of Amazon or Ebay: they have very good mobile sites, but people like to use their Apps.

I would like to develop an App that connects with our MySQL database, and does pretty much all what the site does. So categories, sub category, products all viewable, and purchases can be made.

Your message sounded like just an App that if they clicked it, it went to our mobile site. As you rightly say, they can do that anyway by Bookmarking the web site.
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Then that's about all you can do. Detect their browser is a mobile client and present the mobile pages.

Building an App is a different animal all together. For iOS you need a Mac, XCode and an SDK and someone to write Objective-C code.
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