How to Use a PHP GUI Framework to Build Desktop Based Applications that Work in Different Operating Systems - PHP FFI IUP package blog

About the PHP FFI IUP Package

The package PHP FFI IUP is one of the few PHP packages that was considered notable recently because it does something that is worth paying attention.

The basic purpose is: Create GUI user interfaces using the UIP toolkit

Here follows in more detail what it does:

This package can be used to create GUI user interfaces using the FFI extension.

It provides a class that uses the PHP FFI extension to execute C code provided in this package so it can build desktop build user interfaces using the IUP GUI toolkit on Linux.

Currently it can create user interfaces with many types of widgets like

- Display values from a arrays in a matrix widget
- Alarm window
- Animated label
- Button,
- Background or a content box
- Canvas
- Clipboard
- Calendar
- Color bar
- Dial
- Date pick
- Dialog windows
- Expander
- Flat tabs
- Web view
- Scintilla based code editor
- Etc..

Conclusion

The PHP FFI IUP can be downloaded from download page or be installed using the PHP Composer tool following instructions in the Composer install instructions page.

This package was considered notable for implementing its benefits in a way that is worth noticing.

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