Can PHP be used for building desktop applications?

Building desktop applications with PHP language is not the usual way of creating such applications as is with C, C++, Java, C#, Python or others but yes it can be done as well. Building desktop applications with PHP is useful for having also server side part of the application covered with PHP also.

See also

• PHP UI - PHP extension for cross platform development of native look-and-feel user interfaces.
• Phalanger - Phalanger is an open-source PHP implementation introducing the PHP language into the family of compiled .NET languages.
• PHP Desktop - For Windows, native desktop GUI applications using web technologies such as PHP, HTML5, JavaScript and SQLite.
• PHP GTK - Extension for PHP language that implements language bindings for GTK+ and simplifies writing client-side cross-platform GUI applications.
• wxPHP - wxWidgets for PHP, binding/wrapper for the cross-platform library wxWidgets, which gives you the ability to develop desktop applications using PHP.