4 years ago

Category: PHP

If you are a full stack javascript developer, you can use Electron.js framework to make desktop apps. If you are a PHP developer and you want / need to create a desktop app, I was thinking about this when watching my wife learning python, and i decided to find a way to develop simple desktop apps without learning a new language, only with my actual stack.

For that we’ll use: You can’t use MySQL DB for that, you must use SQLite DB

Go to this page to download the latest version of phpdesktop (as zip file) and extract it: https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop/releases/tag/chrome-v57.0-rc phpdesktop contains all you need to run your php code as desktop applications.

To create an installer for your desktop application and for further configurations and uses and even for creating an installer for your app, the main documentation is well done: https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop