Kelvin’s Blog

After a long development , PHP-GTK team is proud to release version 2.0 of PHP-GTK. I have been playing with PHP-GTK since version 1.0.1, and I must say that I am delighted with the announcement, lots of improvement has been made. If you have no idea what PHP-GTK is, then let me briefly explain to you and what it can do.

Basically, PHP-GTK is a wrapper around GTK , a cross-platform library for creating desktop application. No web server like Apache or Lighttpd is needed, What required are PHP-CLI, and GTK2 library. Instead of using HTML for GUI, GTK widget is used. If you want to learn, what you can do is to start reading the documentation from PHP-GTK community.

Usually PHP is used for creating awesome web application, but if you are amazed PHP too can be used to create desktop application, then go download your own copy and start hacking. If you are a PHP programmer, I guess you will love it, because PHP-GTK does not change how you write code with PHP.

There are few ways to install PHP-GTK, but what I can recommend for easy installation for Linux/Unix/BSD machine, download the installer from Bob Majdak Jr. If you are using Windows machine, then download Gnope. Two great installer for PHP-GTK.