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Micah Carrick · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject: Anybody worked with PHP-GTK?

I'm curious about this. I've read about it just a little bit. Anybody working in PHP-GTK and have any opinions on it? Pros and Cons? I'm very strong in PHP but typically work in C for GTK. Does it seem to be catching on?

openldev · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 6:55 pm Post subject:

You know, to be quite honest, I didn't even know there _was_ Gtk+ for PHP...

Micah Carrick · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 10:24 pm Post subject:

I stumbled across it and it doesn't seem to be picking up steam as quickly as one might expect considering how many PHP developers there are in the world. Perhaps the dependency on PHP for a desktop application doesn't appeal to people.

Micah

openldev · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 10:54 pm Post subject:

No, I really don't think so. I use it heavily on my website, but I've never found a reason for it off the web...

irvm · Familiar Face Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 12

After reading http://gtk.php.net/manual/en/installunix.php I decided that getting PHP-GTK running might be quite a hassle. That might be one reason it isn't very popular.

Some (many?) other languages don''t require compiling, and you often don't even need the GTK source. They just use the stock gtk libraries as supplied with most Linux distros. I find that much easier to deal with.

Regards,
Irv