Sounds like a great idea. You could probably improve it by not using an
actual browser, but by using the browser properties in a standalone
application. Here me out... I am confident there are some Windows widgets
that let you easily build you own browser.. which is actually Internet
Explorer without all of the options.
If you were to make a more limited browser interface (so that you cut out
the browser functionality that an application shouldn't have
"home,forward,back,view source, disable javascript,disable cookies,etc, etc,
etc"), and then install the "browser" application... you could probably make
it a standardized .EXE so that any user written PHP program would run on it.
Other than that, you just need to get the web server figured out. How hard
would it be to customize this "browser application" to start and quit apache
in tandem with the application. Again, agree on a standardized apache
config so that there is only one site running... which is on local host,
you're pretty much set.
I think its a great idea.
Brian Tanner
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Situation:
PHP is the greatest damned language I've ever used. With PHP and a
database on the back-end, and a decent browser capable of running
Javascript/JScript on the front end, you can create beautiful,
seamless web applications with so little work that it almost seems
like cheating.
Problem:
If you don't want your application to be just a web application, then
you're stuck using some other relatively stinky language. <Shudders
while thinking back to the days when you had to write thousands of
lines of code just to put some graphics on the screen or open a
socket to a web server>
Variation on a theme:
I'd love to be able to create a PHP Windows .exe that installed just
like a regular application. This ideal program would run just like
an application too. You'd launch it and it would open an application
window, but the window contents would be the current web browser
installed on the system, pointed to the index.php page in your newly
installed application's directory.
In other words, it would be like installing a PHP-enabled webserver
whose output could only go to the application's main and child
windows (if any).
I do NOT want to require the user to install a webserver and I do NOT
want the server to keep running after the application has quit, but I
would LOVE to be able to do basic application type actions like
saving files without having to resort to lame, bloated, miscarriages
like signed Java applets. Also, I would LOVE to be able to simply
create user interfaces without writing tons of code like in Visual
C++. Admittedly, Visual BASIC is similar in purpose here, but as we
all know, VB ain't got nothin' on PHP.
Questions:
[1] Does such a beast exist?
[2] Can anyone think of a fundamental reason why we couldn't do such
a thing?
[3] Is the general consensus that this would be a handy thing to
have, or is it just me?
Please be kind with the flames, I'm new here...
Gre7g.
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