Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.ubuntu,comp.lang.php Subject: Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:41:31 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5110FDFB.4030601@arnowelzel.de> References: <510F6570.8060103@arnowelzel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7670856aea848d9c0786b7b371a202d7"; logging-data="6550"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+HH3HMhat2JCGp+wxW1HTwmYXh0ANi5is=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vvxb79qnDpd3u2J4sYJ5TZ2bEKA= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:8267 Tim Streater, 2013-02-05 11:31: > In article , > crankypuss wrote: > >> ... Jason Betts seems to be using PHP for desktop applications but >> through a java front-end? And perhaps Tim Streater is doing something >> with it too. > > My desktop app uses JavaScript to present to the user, and PHP for > backend stuff such as writing to SQLite databases, communicating over > the net, writing log files, and other functions that the app needs. I > use apache/ajax to communicate between the two. As I said before - > heavy? Sure, but who cares. I would care if i would need all that stuff just to be able to run an application. It's not only about processing power or memory consumption - but also about security and stability. The more components you put together the more likely something can go wrong. -- Arno Welzel http://arnowelzel.de http://de-rec-fahrrad.de