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PHP 5 Finally Released!

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Not that I need to tell anyone... but.... It has finally been released!!

Looks like a compiler is available for it as well.. browse on over to Slashdot....
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COMPILER?????????

When did this happen??? Does it actually ake .exe files? How can it work with GUI?

w0w...
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When did this happen??? Does it actually ake .exe files? How can it work with GUI?
http://www.roadsend.com/home/index.php?pageID=compiler ($399 :o)
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Not much more expensive than the Zend studio...
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yeah.. too bad it's $400 / year is a bit much :roll:
Roadsend wrote:The Roadsend Compiler for PHP is sold with a one (1) year license which allows unlimited and royalty free creation and distribution of stand alone applications, web applications and libraries.
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evilmonkey wrote:How can it work with GUI?
There's php-gtk extension, it's been there for a while...
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yeah, but on windows? (Sorry, I've been using PHP to program for the internet, never for the desktop, so I don't know of the existance of this thing).
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I've never really been a fan of GTK, I'd much rather see some sort of PHP-Qt project.
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Hmmm, so put this together with the PHP compiler (that will soon come out for windows) and we have the ability to write desktop applications in PHP. Not too shaby. BTW, $399 per year is a little much...
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well... you can create standalone desktop applications right now.. it's just they won't be executables.. you could force windows into treating them LIKE executables though by using the open with program properties.. but they won't be encrypted.

anyways, i wouldn't pay that 400$ a year crap with those guys.. i'd just get zend's compiler
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evilmonkey wrote:Hmmm, so put this together with the PHP compiler (that will soon come out for windows) and we have the ability to write desktop applications in PHP. Not too shaby. BTW, $399 per year is a little much...
Well, the compiler is based on 4.3.7. Secondly, there isn't a PHP-GTK version yet that will work with P5 (PHP5). And I agree, $399 is a bit much. What makes it that much worse is that I have been on the beta program for some time (and found a couple of notable issues I might add) and all they offered me was a $50 discount.

It's going to be a tough sell for Roadsend as far as I'm concerned. They can't easily support the bulk of the extensions, much less keep up with php development in general, and it's speed will have to improve dramatically to make in an option for someone that would wish to distribute other kinds of software above and beyond just web apps.
(It would be nice if the PHP-OpenGL project was still going and built into
Roadsend. It would be awesome as a matter of fact!)

Considering also that PHP has no thread support, many that are likely to use a scripting language to develop desktop apps will prolly use something like Python.

Anyways, I'm looking forward to PHP5. This should be fun.

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