GTK is actually a GUI and is not based on HTML at all... I think what Greg
is looking for is an HTML based application that runs standalone...
-Brian
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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