NativePHP: A framework for building desktop apps with PHP

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  • pywebview

    Build GUI for your Python program with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

    • Somehow related, I've been using pywebview for some internal tools: https://github.com/r0x0r/pywebview

    Probably not as full-featured as Electronjs, but since we have a bunch of python scripts to convert to desktop apps, it's very useful.

  • phpdesktop

    Develop desktop GUI applications using PHP, HTML5, JavaScript and SQLite

    • I am a bit surprised by the critical tone in the comments here. Phpdesktop [1] is, for example, a very nice application, and the ability of php to just make some simple scripts on the go and have something that works, is wonderful (compared to js where you often have to build etc, the threshold of getting started on a new computer is high). I have several times needed to make simple applications with a database, and php is perfect for that usecase. Making it simpler to share these applications to non-technical users for offline use is nice

    [1] https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop

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  • wxphp

    Build cross-platform software with rich native GUIs using the combined power of the PHP language and the wxWidgets library.

    • Wait, this PHP-GTK thing is abandonware! Last release in 2008, and only supports PHP 5.5.

    Currently, and for most purposes (especially for new projects), PHP 7 is already being considered old... the amount of work that went into PHP 8 vs. PHP 5 is simply staggering.

    PHP 5.5 is just too old to develop against!

    The same applies to https://php-qt.org/ which "gives you" Qt 4 on PHP 5.1.

    Fortunately enough, for those seeking a GUI toolkit for PHP, there's WxPHP which supports PHP 7 and 8:

    https://github.com/wxphp/wxphp

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