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idontknow87
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Creating Graphic Interface Question

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Hi,

Total programming newbie here :D

I am trying to learn how to create desktop software applications with PHP. I am using Zend Studio for writing and editing my code.

I am trying to figure out how to design application windows, application menus, how to build window menus and so on.

My questions are:

What software can I use to add different graphical interface controls to application windows when attempting to create a PHP application?

And after this software, do I need an additional software program to create an '.exe' file or to create an installation file? If so, which software can I use for that?

Thanks for the help,

idontknow87
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I...don't think that's possible.

PHP isn't actually a programming language, it's a scripting language, and one for the web at that.

Perhaps you might want to look into something meant for desktop applications...like Java, C++, C#, Smalltalk, Pascal, BASIC, etc.

Or maybe I'm behind on the times. Knowing the open-source community, some psychopath has probably made a GUI toolkit for PHP, though it still makes no sense.

EDIT:

Actually, if you learn Flex/Flash I believe Adobe's new AIR runtime environment has some PHP functionality, but don't hold me to that. Even still, that's meant for more of "web applications on the desktop" rather than full-blown desktop apps.
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Post by Ollie Saunders »

PHP - Code would have been a more suitable forum for this post. This forum is intended for advanced topics of code design and theory which this is not.
What software can I use to add different graphical interface controls to application windows when attempting to create a PHP application?
Have a look into PHP GTK.
And after this software, do I need an additional software program to create an '.exe' file or to create an installation file? If so, which software can I use for that?
As far as I know this can't be done. There is a project to write an implementation of PHP in Java which will allow you to execute code on any machine with a Java Runtime (a lot, if not all these days) I'm unsure of the status of that project, I haven't heard of anyone making use of it so I presume it's incomplete or unstable at the moment.
idontknow87
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Thanks for the info

Post by idontknow87 »

Hi,

Thanks for the info. I think I'll look into JAVA.

And I did not realize where I needed to post and where not to. My apologies.

Thanks again,

idontknow87
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