helo can any one say me

1. can we develop desktop application using PHP?? as php also supports OOPs concept these days..

2. which is the frequently programming language used for developing desktop application?

Greetings,

1. In theory you could, however, any machine wanting to run the application would have to have PHP on it. Hence the reason for making web based apps, PHP then only needs to be on a server and users access the app via a browser.

2. At a guess I would say C++ but apps can be written in the likes of Delphi, Visual Basic etc

ye thanks for the reply but let me ask you that those languages in which desktop application are built they supports OOPs concept right??

so PHP also supports OOPs so is PHP being used for developing desktop apps??

Greetings,

Yes.

Guess you did not read point 1 above then... so read point 1 in my previous post.

Or to expand on point 1...

You have a company with 500 users and a few servers. You develope an app in PHP and then have to install and maintain php on 500 computers. This would be a pain.

Or you develope the app as a web app and then have php on a webserver, so it's in one place and only have one machine to update etc, users then access the app via a browser which every computer has.

ye i got it .. thanks for the help.

well if we developed software using visual basic then also we have to install in all the pc of the company.

ex: if there are 500 pc then it is difficult to install isnt it??

Greetings,

Obviously. Just like you'd have to install office on any machine that needed it on there so the user could do their job.

However, you didn't ask about Visual Basic applications you asked about developing PHP desktop apps. Therefore it really depends on exactly what you are trying to accomplish as to which way you should go about building the application (i.e. in which language it's written).

php is for web development where as languages like c++ are designed for application development i don't think u cant develop desktop apps using php

First answer : Php is not used for the desktop application in present days.
: Yes you are right about the oop concept. In Those days php and oop concepts is very popular in php developers.
Second Answer : In India for some of programming languages very popular desktop application like asp.net, java, c, c++, Oracle.

Sure. Take a look at the PHP Desktop project (https://code.google.com/p/phpdesktop/). It lets you develop native desktop applications using PHP/HTML5. PHP Desktop embeds a Chrome browser, a web server and a php interpreter, it is kind of a PHP to EXE compiler. Converting your web app to desktop app is basically a matter of copying it to the www/ directory.