The Zana Zen

Rocketboom – This one is extremely funny !

Their vblog seems very successful, I’m thinking about their business model and I’ll keep watching them to measure their success, I guess that someone will want to buy them in a while.

Here is a thought I just had – Making PHP scripts run locally by creating a wrapper that contains the environment that is needed for the PHP scripts to run, that is, a basic web server which is embedded in the binary and the PHP libraries themselves. As for the UI, we can use the internet explorer display engine, which is implemented as a COM object to do the job, or we can just use portions of code from an open source project as well.

It’s kind of simple to implement and it’s very useful. Think that people could create a standalone binary that is running a regular PHP script on the local machine, It should be fast and flexible.

The benefits out of this are as follows:

• PHP is a simple programming language.
• PHP has a wide array of libraries to choose from when you design your product.
• It is extensible and easy to maintain.
• This can be ported to replace ActiveX objects, while maintaining higher security possibilities.
• The UI is a markup language, which means that it can be replaced easily.
• It opens new possibilities for exiting web developers, that now can program for the end user as well.

If you are worrying about the size of the end product (the binary), then you shouldn’t be as for the framework, it may be implemented in a shared library (DLL) and just be used as a runtime library.