I read PHP manual, and i found that PHP support Desktop Programming. How can i configure PHP in order i can write a Desktop program? Is the performance good? Which IDE is suitable to write PHP code?
I never heard of this... But I'm sure it's nothing too fancy... It's a language made for WEB... Therefore I guess you see your program through desktop through a offline browser... Which would require apache and mysql...
PHP scripts can be run from the command line like many other scripting languages like perl to perform tasks. I think you have misunderstood. You cannot use php to write computer programs. PHP is not a programming language like c++ you do not have control over the hardware or memory of a computer.
Looks like you proved me wrong; an interesting read. However it is just a regular c extension for php to access the windows api. Why wouldn't you just write your program in c in the first place? I think this is using PHP for something it is not designed to do. Having said that, I'm still going to try this out.
I highly recommend taking a look at WinBinder if you want to create desktop applications using PHP. Zend Studio is my IDE of choice for PHP development.
Thank you for your help. I think PHP will be chosen if you have a web application which written in PHP and a desktop programming interact with the web application.