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Using PHP as active desktop
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:19 am
by impulse()
Is this possible? I wrote a simple "Hello world" PHP script and forced it as my desktop background and I'm getting no results. I can't see this being impossible though. Has anyone tried this before?
Regards,
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:39 am
by daedalus__
May I ask why you want to do this?
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:19 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:49 pm
by Mordred
Have you addressed the page as
http://localhost/whatever.php?
Also, you must set it as desktop->customize->web, not as a background.
Anyway, go and repeat ten times the Lord's Prayer as an excuse for your perversion

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:39 pm
by impulse()
Mordred wrote:Have you addressed the page as
http://localhost/whatever.php?
Also, you must set it as desktop->customize->web, not as a background.
Anyway, go and repeat ten times the Lord's Prayer as an excuse for your perversion

That worked. It was more of a work project and having peoples desktop display when they have a reminder. Although that could make for some quite cool projects. A bit of AJAX showing server stats and where ever your imagination takes you from there.
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:27 pm
by Kieran Huggins
I use an HTML background, it's just html and javascript though, but I suppose a little ajax could spice things up a bit if you want. In order for PHP to enter the mix, you'll have to prod a server somewhere...
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:58 pm
by Ambush Commander
Localhost host, of course. It's a neat idea, I should try it some time.
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:05 am
by DaveTheAve
That would be really nice if you could remove ALL icons from your desktop. In the ajax program running in the background you can orginaize the "icons" tag em, have everyday tools like calenders or w/e... kinda cool. But then again, i'd rather use the normal desktop w/ widgets.
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:09 pm
by Ambush Commander
You can remove all the icons (the "permanent" ones are removable via Properties > Desktop > Customize Destop > Desktop icons. But what you're describing would require mad AJAXing and interfacing with Windows.