A native Windows binding for PHP - released

[Rubem Pechansky]

Hi all,

I have designed and successfully prototyped a native Windows binding
for PHP. This binding is very lightweight and it is already capable of
doing dialogs, controls, and a lot more with a few dozen lines of
code. PHP can thus be used as a tool for quick development of native
Windows applications.

I have just released this project to the public as Open Source at
http://winbinder.sourceforge.net/. Although it is still a work in
progress, you can take a look at the source code, download a working
demo and play with it a little bit.

Your ideas, comments, criticisms and suggestions are very welcome.

[Good Man]

Re: A native Windows binding for PHP - released

pechansky@hyper visual.com (Rubem Pechansky) wrote in
news:d81791f9.0 409161502.2a0ff f5c@posting.goo gle.com:
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> http://winbinder.sourceforge.net/[/color]

very cool idea...

[Manuel Lemos]

Re: A native Windows binding for PHP - released

Hello,

On 09/16/2004 09:01 PM, Rubem Pechansky wrote:[color=blue]
> I have designed and successfully prototyped a native Windows binding
> for PHP. This binding is very lightweight and it is already capable of
> doing dialogs, controls, and a lot more with a few dozen lines of
> code. PHP can thus be used as a tool for quick development of native
> Windows applications.
>
> I have just released this project to the public as Open Source at
> http://winbinder.sourceforge.net/. Although it is still a work in
> progress, you can take a look at the source code, download a working
> demo and play with it a little bit.
>
> Your ideas, comments, criticisms and suggestions are very welcome.[/color]

This looks like a good extension for submitting to PECL:

http://pecl.php.net/

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Manuel Lemos

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[Ethan T]

Re: A native Windows binding for PHP - released

Rubem Pechansky <pechansky@hype rvisual.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> I have designed and successfully prototyped a native Windows binding
> for PHP. This binding is very lightweight and it is already capable of
> doing dialogs, controls, and a lot more with a few dozen lines of
> code. PHP can thus be used as a tool for quick development of native
> Windows applications.
> http://winbinder.sourceforge.net/.[/color]

I was just thinking a few days ago how powerful it would be to have
GUI-driven PHP. Keep up the project, it looks very promising!

--
eth'nT

[Gibbed]

Re: A native Windows binding for PHP - released

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:01:30 -0700, Rubem Pechansky wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi all,
>
> I have designed and successfully prototyped a native Windows binding for
> PHP. This binding is very lightweight and it is already capable of doing
> dialogs, controls, and a lot more with a few dozen lines of code. PHP can
> thus be used as a tool for quick development of native Windows
> applications.
>
> I have just released this project to the public as Open Source at
> http://winbinder.sourceforge.net/. Although it is still a work in
> progress, you can take a look at the source code, download a working demo
> and play with it a little bit.
>
> Your ideas, comments, criticisms and suggestions are very welcome.[/color]

Very nice. I had actually been seeking an alternate to PHP-GTK (mainly
because of no PHP5 support) -- the php-wxwindows project I found is long
dead (and no longer available).

I'll give it a try. I'll have to figure out how to compile it in Visual
Studio though, as there is no PHP5 binary available.

Hope it works out well ;)

[Alvaro G Vicario]

Re: A native Windows binding for PHP - released

*** Rubem Pechansky wrote/escribió (16 Sep 2004 17:01:30 -0700):[color=blue]
> I have just released this project to the public as Open Source at
> http://winbinder.sourceforge.net/. Although it is still a work in
> progress, you can take a look at the source code, download a working
> demo and play with it a little bit.[/color]

I've downloaded PHP 4.3.8 for Windows (ZIP build) and WinBind and followed
Readme.txt instructions. However, nothing happens when I execute
php-win.exe (with or without a *.phpw file as an argument). I don't even
get an error message. :-?


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[Alvaro G Vicario]

Re: A native Windows binding for PHP - released

*** Alvaro G Vicario wrote/escribió (Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:34:32 +0200):[color=blue]
> I've downloaded PHP 4.3.8 for Windows (ZIP build) and WinBind and followed
> Readme.txt instructions. However, nothing happens when I execute
> php-win.exe (with or without a *.phpw file as an argument). I don't even
> get an error message. :-?[/color]

Please ignore my message. I forgot that Windows version of PHP cannot be
installed under "C:\Program Files" folder.

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[Rubem Pechansky]

Re: A native Windows binding for PHP - released

Hi,

Thanks for the your comments. I'll definitely submit it to PECL as
soon as it is more stable, but I'm not sure it is a good idea to
submit a pre-alpha...

[Manuel Lemos]

Re: A native Windows binding for PHP - released

Hello,

On 09/17/2004 02:40 PM, Rubem Pechansky wrote:[color=blue]
> Thanks for the your comments. I'll definitely submit it to PECL as
> soon as it is more stable, but I'm not sure it is a good idea to
> submit a pre-alpha...[/color]

There are plenty of extensions in that state in PECL. The point of PECL
is that you most likely get more feedback about your extension as you
will find there more people interested in this kind of things. Your
extension would also be automatically available in binary format (DLL)
for Windows.

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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[Phil Roberts]

Re: A native Windows binding for PHP - released

pechansky@hyper visual.com (Rubem Pechansky) treated the lovely
people of comp.lang.php with the following stuff:
[color=blue]
> Hi all,
>
> I have designed and successfully prototyped a native Windows
> binding for PHP. This binding is very lightweight and it is
> already capable of doing dialogs, controls, and a lot more with
> a few dozen lines of code. PHP can thus be used as a tool for
> quick development of native Windows applications.
>
> I have just released this project to the public as Open Source
> at http://winbinder.sourceforge.net/. Although it is still a
> work in progress, you can take a look at the source code,
> download a working demo and play with it a little bit.
>
> Your ideas, comments, criticisms and suggestions are very
> welcome.[/color]

I like the event handling system you're using. When the supported
widget set is more complet it looks like this will be very
promising indeed. Certainly more so than GTK.

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Please forgive me I have sinned - Not on your life
But that's how you want me, But I'll never fear thee
Why you and not me? Tell me Holy Man

[Rubem Pechansky]

Re: A native Windows binding for PHP - released

Phil Roberts <phil.roberts@g ooglemail.com> wrote in message news:<Xns9567CA 31EEC51philrobe rts@216.196.109 .144>...[color=blue]
> I like the event handling system you're using. When the supported
> widget set is more complet it looks like this will be very
> promising indeed. Certainly more so than GTK.[/color]

Hope so... We'll get there :)