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[SOLVED]Converting php to something else

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:09 am
by ryuuka
this time it's not really a problem in the code

what i wish to do is port my webapplication to another language
to make a stand alone program without the use of a webbrowser.

i wish to do this because i want a broader view on the various programming languages that are available.

can anyone advice a language that looks like php(to make the convert easier) and
provide a few links that show how best to convert my current code and turn it into
a nice looking app.

a few tutorials to learn this language and a pointer to a forum who gives good support for this language(like this one :) ) would also be nice(although i can find them my self)

a few requerments though:

has to be able to:

use MSSQL and adodb
and it has to be able to make graph or has to be able to import them from premade php sites

thanks in advance.


ps. sorry to the mods if this is not in the right category i didn't know where to put it.

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:22 am
by Mordred
PHP can be used in building standalone apps, check out PHP-GTK for example.

Also, you can get a tiny web server and distribute your code packaged with it, depends on the app I guess.

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:43 am
by Chris Corbyn
Perl looks like PHP. C is quite similar too although it's much more difficult. Java (I can't speak from experience) is probab;y going to be the quickest to pick up but you'll need to be familiar with OOP.

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:46 am
by ryuuka
what about languages like Python and Delphi

how would they work in this

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:56 am
by Chris Corbyn
Python is a popular language and I think you'd get support easily but it doesn't look like PHP. Again, python is very OO. Delphi -- no idea; never looked into it.

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:52 pm
by feyd
Delphi isn't for web applications. It's a binary that must reside on the client. Sure, it can communicate over the internet, but its main purpose is real applications. So if that's what this application is, then it may be used. Whether it's easy to port to depends on what your application does.

Moved to Misc.

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:26 am
by ryuuka
i do not want it to be a web application that's kind of the purpose of this little project
i want it to be a completly client side app wich only needs to access a database on the network

wich contains the information for the app to process.

thanks for the info so far

Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:30 am
by ryuuka
i've decided to go ahead with delphi

can anyone advice any forums like this one for delphi questions?