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Posted by Rory Browne on 05/17/05 02:00
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@planetthoughtful.org> 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.
>
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