Using PHP-GTK to serve Web Applications to html 5 Browsers
Note: This article was originally published at Planet PHP
on 27 October 2011.
Using PHP-GTK to serve Web Applications to html 5 Browsers
By Manuel Lemos
Yes, you read it right, GTK+, the Gnome Toolkit library, normally used to create desktop applications, can now be used to serve the same applications via the Web to a browser that supports html 5 canvas objects.PHP-GTK is a PHP extension that uses the GTK+ library to build PHP desktop applications. So it can eventually benefit for this GTK library enhancements to build PHP-GTK based applications that can be served over the Web to html 5 browsers.
Read this article to learn more about GTK+ 3 html 5 canvas backend and how it could be used to run remote PHP-GTK applications that can be accessed over the Web.


