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Revisited: Building Cross Platform GUI Apps With PHP-GTK

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By: Mitchell Harper

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November 17, 2002

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Revisited: Building Cross Platform GUI Apps With PHP-GTK - Installing PHP-GTK for Linux
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I'm going to show you how to download PHP-GTK using PHP's CVS server. Before you can install PHP-GTK, you must make sure that you have PHP version 4.1.1 or later, CVS, the Linux GTK+ libraries, as well as libtool 1.3.3 or later, automake 1.4 or later, autoconf 2.12 or later, bison 1.28 or later, and flex 2.54 or later installed and working correctly.

Firstly, login to the CVS tree using phpfi as your password:

cvs –d :pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository login

Next, download PHP-GTK to your machine from PHP's CVS server:

cvs -d :pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository co php-gtk

Change into the directory where PHP-GTK was downloaded:

cd php-gtk

Run the phpize tool, which should've been installed when you installed PHP. It should be in the directory pointed to by your phpize path.

phpize

Now you'll need to configure, make and install PHP-GTK:

./configure && make && make install

Lastly, run the following command to execute the hello.php script that was installed when you downloaded PHP-GTK. You should be presented with a PHP-GTK window containing one button:

php –q test/hello.php

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