Have you looked at http://gtk.php.net/? Maybe that's what you need.

Edin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gre7g Luterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:43 PM
Subject: [PHP-DEV] Totally Blue Sky


> 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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