Pro PHP-GTK

PHP is gaining positive reputation for its system administration and client-side application development capabilities. This administration and development is accomplished using the PHP-GTK extension. You can take advantage of client-side applications by implementing language bindings for the GTK (the GIMP Toolkit) library for creating cross-platform graphical user interfaces.

Pro PHP-GTK acts as both a definitive reference and a hands-on tutorial to the PHP-GTK extension. The book couples the extension's key topics with practical examples to guide you through a real-world project: developing a database-driven client-side inventory manager. You'll also learn how to integrate this feature with other emerging technologies like SOAP and RSS, and how to generate XML-based interfaces.

Introducing PHP-GTK.- Installing PHP-GTK.- Understanding PHP-GTK Basics.- Handling Events and Signals.- Getting an Application Up and Running.- Laying Out Applications.- Displaying and Collecting Simple Data.- Using Multiline Text.- Working with Trees and Lists.- Scrolling.- Adding Menus and Toolbars.- Adding Images.- Drag-and-Drop.- Using Selectors & Dialogs.- Doing Background Work.- Changing the Look and Feel.- Distributing PHP-GTK Applications.

Scott Mattocks is the lead e-commerce engineer at Yamaha Music Interactive, where he oversees the development of several PHP-related projects. Scott has been working with PHP and PHP-GTK for almost his entire career. Not only has Scott been working with these tools, but he has also been giving back to the community in many ways. Scott spent many hours to help improve the first set of documentation for PHP-GTK and is listed as one of the authors for the PHP-GTK 2 documentation. He has also contributed several PHP-GTK classes to PEAR and has added code to more traditional PEAR packages such as PHPUnit and Console_Getargs.