Is making desktop apps in php a dumb idea now? Can someone explain why? Is the community completely dead for php desktop apps? What are the problems with using php for such a purpose?
I’m just reading through the php manual and the intro states it can be used for desktop apps. But the gtk website hasn’t been updated in what looks like 4 years…
is php gtk dead?
It seems so. It hasn’t been updated for many years.
Is making desktop apps in php a dumb idea now?
It depends on project. If you already know PHP then it’s reasonable to reuse that knowledge and not spent 1-2 years learning another language and their frameworks to create a GUI desktop app.
You can easily convert PHP websites to desktop apps using a project like PHP Desktop. It embeds a web server, a web browser (IE or Chrome) and a php interpreter, <snip/>