# Making a GUI Mess of PHP


By Ben Ramsey

Published on August 19, 2004


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[Making a GUI Mess of PHP: Building 'Stand-alone' GUI Applications with PHP-GTK][phpmag] \
by [Ben Ramsey](http://benramsey.com/) \
[_International PHP Magazine_](http://www.phpmag.net/) \
Issue 05.2004 (Sep/Oct 2004)

From the introduction:
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> PHP-GTK has been around for several years now, and you may have heard what it can do---allow developers to create graphical applications using PHP. Egads! It sounds as if it's the Holy Grail of PHP, something that can take PHP to new heights, breaking it free from the bonds of the Web. In fact, it can do just that, as we see with a practical application: a simple text editor.

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