Script GUI for PHP v.1.0 Released

Ever dreamed running a PHP or Perl script by just double-clicking on a file in the Windows Explorer, so that it will automatically load into a webbrowser with the correct URL?

CGIDir
Friday, July 28, 2006; 04:37 AM

ZZEE has released Script GUI for PHP 1.0, a new PHP run-time solution for Windows XP/Server 2003/2000/ME.

Script GUI is an easy-to-install run-time PHP solution for Windows, it sets up in seconds and ready to serve your PHP scripts out-of-the-box. You don't have to install Apache or IIS, then separately PHP and then struggle with settings connecting the things together. Script GUI for PHP has it all.

What Script GUI is useful for?

• Test your PHP scripts without loading them to the website.
• Use PHP as a Windows scripting tool with both GUI and command line. PHP is a powerful, feature-rich and easy to use language. For example, you can do various file manipulations, batch replace in text files, clean your HTML code with PHP Tidy module, parse HTML code with PHP DOM module, etc.
• In-house software development. Automate your business tasks with PHP: connect to databases, manipulate PDF and Office files, use XML, SOAP, COM and more. PHP has interfaces to all popular databases. PHP is scalable - you can easily transfer your applications to a webserver or back to the desktop.
• Outsource Windows tools development. Now, thanks to Script GUI, PHP scripts can become full-featured Windows programs. The customer will get the full source code, which is a needed protection for investments. And because of lots of existing PHP modules, the development will be fast and effective.
• Learn PHP. It is easy with Script GUI: you don't have to type scripts' URLs into the browser, just click on your script and it will run right away. You don't even have to setup any websites.

Script GUI advantages

• You can run a PHP script in GUI mode by double-clicking on a file in the Windows Explorer
• You can integrate Perl and other script interpreters with Scipt GUI, the program also supports CGI exe files
• Script GUI doesn't use TCP/IP to emulate webserver / webbrowser environment
• There are no conflicts with HTTP servers, proxies or firewalls. Nobody can connect to the Script GUI's webserver.
• Script execution doesn't depend on availability of network connections
• Script GUI internal webbrowser runs with high permissions, providing the possibilities that are often disabled in the regular webbrowser for security reasons
• Built-in webserver can understand .htaccess files, its logs are compatible with Apache
• Built-in webbrowser is based on Internet Explorer and thus standards compatible
• Script GUI is integrated with PHP right out-of-the-box, you don't have to hassle with settings
• Easy access to error and HTTP logs

What comes with Script GUI

• Internal secure webserver which doesn't use TCP/IP
• Internal webbrowser (Internet Explorer based) running with high permissions, which offers maximum possibilities
• One of the latest versions of PHP, coming with the most popular modules
• PHP includes SQLite - an SQL-compatible fast embedded database