180482 - PHP bindings for XPCOM

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XPCOM, enhancement)

Description

[Dominik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; PL; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; PL; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4

Why projects of Mozilla can't do in XUL + PHP, the same like now: XUL +
JavaScript (and maybe GTK PHP).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

could you be a bit more specific?

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Because we already need to implement a JavaScript interpreter for use on
websites.  PHP is designed to be server software, and we can not assume that
everyone has a copy of PHP installed, nor force everyone to install PHP.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a request to implement PHP bindings for
XPCOM, no?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

If someone contributes a patch, well and good.

Comment 5

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

i have no plans on working on this.

Comment 6

[Zook Valem]

Saw the article at 'http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1140' about how to use XUL.
 It mentioned that Mozilla have the support for multiple languages beside
Javascript.  Here's the clip notes I'm taking out of that website.  It say ...

--clip--
support multiple languages for building "code behind" components including C++,
Python and Ruby, with Perl in progress -- though, sadly, no PHP yet(!).
--clip--

So, this doesn't add up to comment #2 because some of those multiple languages
mentioned above is actually a server-side language.  So, PHP should not be left
out because of that.  PHP have become widely used language on the internet and
it is growing pretty fast because PHP is a simplier language and easier to use
but with a powerful effect on the web.  Not like Perl if you know what I meant.

I think it is worth a look.  It doesn't have to be the PHP in the web browser or
on the end-user machine.  I saw that the Flash Player can both act as the client
-side and as a server-side at the same time.