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Deploying PHP to Windows

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:16 am
by greyhoundcode
Has anyone here had any experience of PhpDock from NuSphere or ZZEE, which seems like a similar kind of package?

Anyone got any thoughts on using them as an alternative to, say, using PHP-GTK for Windows apps? Bit of a vague one, I know. Just after some general thoughts and musings really :wink:

Re: Deploying PHP to Windows

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:36 pm
by alex.barylski
I had never heard of phpDock until now...a quick Google tells me:

PHPDock is for deplying PHP applications in a stand alone executable by embedding a micro web server, similar to RaodSend PHP compiler.

GTK on the other hand is a Window'ing framework, similar to Windows MFC or wxWidgets...PHP-GTK provides language bindings to allow you to develop Window'ed applications using PHP. Basically you create physical Windows, buttons, etc and assign event handlers.

So unless I misunderstand something of PhpDock they are quite different. :P

Cheers,
Alex

Re: Deploying PHP to Windows

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:35 am
by greyhoundcode
Yeah they are quite different - in that GTK lets you build an actual Windows app and PhpDock (or ZZEE, I believe) lets you deploy a web app to Windows.

What I was thinking was that in some cases clients might want a desktop application that links seamlessly with their website - mutual updating of inventories blah blah blah. So if the web app on the server is written in PHP, there's a good case for producing the Windows client in PHP also ....

My particular interest is actually PhpDock or ZZEE rather than GTK, but the problem with both of those is that there seems to be a poverty of impartial information and reviews available, hence this post to dig for any negative (or positive) experiences.

:drunk: Cheers!