php

[aruns]

Hi guys,

 

                      It is possible to create a windows application using php...

[psychowolvesbane]

I highly doubt that it's possible to have a standalone php application as it is the topping of the huge html cake.

[discomatt]

No, not really. It's possible to execute PHP from the command line... but PHP is designed to be compiled at runtime, not be a pre-compiled executable.

[GingerRobot]

There are quite a few applications geared towards turning PHP scrips into stand-alone applications. For example:

 

http://www.priadoblender.com/index.php?layout=main&cslot_1=2

http://www.scriptol.com/apollo.php

http://gtk.php.net/

 

Never having used them, I dont know about the effectiveness and limitations of these.

[Orio]

I've been using BamBalam Compile (Free) to compile php scripts into standalone executables.

At first it's a bit difficult to understand what to do, but after messing around with the examples you'll get the hang of it.

Pretty powerful tool... I made (for an example) a script that resizes a whole folder of pictures. I simply send my friends this exe and then they can send me scaled versions of pictures they took (and hence the transfer time and bandwidth are much smaller). You could do all kinds of useful stuff, and everything is php

They even made in one of the examples a full GUI calculator, with pure php. Without GTK.

Everything is free too.

 

Worth a try imo.

 

Orio.