I don't think php-gtk is currently suitable. As of 22 April Andrei was considering a very early alpha release. Taking that into consideration I'd doubt if it's stable enough yet for production. Gtk 1 is afaik obsolete. If you're going to jump to a different language, then I'd seriously consider another P-Language(ie python or Perl). Personally(I'm saying personally to avoid a flame war), I'd lean towards Python. AFAIK it's pygtk, wxPython, and pyQT modules are fairly stable, although I could be wrong on that. Perl AFAIK also has farly stable GUI modules, but writing bad(unreadable) code is far too easy in Perl. On 5/16/05, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to do some desktop app development and I'm looking for others' > thoughts on whether PHP-GTK is a suitable environment in which to work? > > Years ago I developed desktop apps in Access / VB6, but it's been long > enough now, and VB in particular has changed so much in the intervening > time, that I'd have to relearn these anyway, so it seems like a good time to > either consolidate my PHP coding or to pick up some other language. Not to > mention that Access is entirely despicable for any purpose, desktop app > development included [1]. > > I'm wondering if PHP-GTK is mature / featured enough to handle a relatively > complex desktop app project, using features like table grids for displaying > / editing data stored in a MySQL backend and so on. > > My other alternative is to bite the bullet and learn something like Java, > though I assume my learning curve would be steeper and more time-consuming. > I pick Java because a) Everyone Seems To Love Java<tm>, and b) there appear > to be at least a couple of decent free Java IDEs available in NetBeans and > Eclipse (and maybe others that I don't know about). > > In essence, I'm looking for a desktop app development environment that is > featured, connects well to MySQL, and is relatively painless to learn. Java > may not suit the last of those criteria, but I don't know enough about it at > this point to be scared of it if it is painful to learn. > > Anyone have any thoughts to share about PHP-GTK and / or other desktop app > development environments that might be more suitable? Freeness of > development tools is a big plus to me in this, if that needs to be > explicitly said. > > Much warmth, > > Murray > > [1] Just my opinion. I know I'd get a healthy argument from several > developers that I know. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
