I just stumbled across PHP-GTK today, which lets you write desktop programs in PHP without the need of a webserver (such as Apache). This is great if you want to use PHP to create a program that is to be distributed on a CD.

I looked at the MozPHP plugin at mozdev.org, and considered if I could use it to create an offline application that harnesses the power of Mozilla and PHP. (I was thinking along the lines of a XUL + PHP or HTML + PHP app.) But since it did not have that much documentation, I went over to PHP-GTK.

The 1.0 version of PHP-GTK seems to work really well.

From the PHP-GTK site I came across the Agate Database Administration tool, which is truly cool. It lets you administer a wide variety of databases from within a real desktop tool. Think of it as PHPMyAdmin for the desktop, with additional support for many other databases. And it is all written by this one brilliant guy. And it is distributed as free software!

It seems to come with its own PHP-GTK distribution, so just run the batch file that comes with it to start it. (It won't run with the standard 1.0 PHP-GTK distribution).

I think I have finally found the perfect platform to develop offline / desktop programs in.

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