Gnope 1.5.1 PHP Desktop Released
A few days ago, Gnope 1.5.1 was finally released. Gnope is a simple PHP Gtk framework, which follows the tradition of simple BASIC and other development environments to create desktop applications and tools FAST(!).
Last year I was desperately trying to get a very simple text processing tool together, which needed a simple interface for a customer. It was unbelieveable how difficult it was to get something to run on PHP with a little Window with 4 buttons.
I finally did it in Perl with Tcl/Tk, but that was so bloated with additional software installations, that we ended with over 12 MB for a tiny program.
That was the day, where I contacted Christian to ask him about a simple framework, even a “not sooo good” coder like me could handle.
Gnope was born and downloaded 10.000 of times now. What did we learn? Simplicity rules!
