Ben Ramsey • Zend/PHP Conference & Expo • 2 Nov 2010 Desktop Apps with PHP and Titanium 

What Is Titanium? 

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Desktop Apps with PHP and Titanium • Ben Ramsey Four main parts… ‣HTML/CSS/JavaScript ‣APIs ‣Language-OS bridge ‣Run-time shell 5 

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$9M in funding from
Sierra Ventures and eBay! 

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Using Titanium Developer 

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Desktop Apps with PHP and Titanium • Ben Ramsey Installation on Linux ‣There is a known issue with the GTK libraries for Titanium Developer on Linux ‣Until there is a fix, do this after installing Titanium Developer: ‣cd ~/.titanium/runtime/linux/1.0.0 ‣rm libgobject* libgthread* libglib* libgio* 19 

“Hello, World!” 

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Hello, World!

Hello, World!



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var mainMenu = Titanium.UI.createMenu(); mainMenu.appendItem(Titanium.UI.createMenuItem("File")); var menu = Titanium.UI.createMenu(); menu.appendItem(Titanium.UI.createMenuItem("Quit", function() { if (confirm("Are you sure you want to quit?")) { Titanium.App.exit(); } })); mainMenu.getItemAt(0).setSubmenu(menu); Titanium.UI.currentWindow.menu = mainMenu; 

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Desktop Apps with PHP and Titanium • Ben Ramsey Titanium has APIs! ‣API ‣Analytics ‣App ‣Codec ‣Database ‣Desktop ‣Filesystem ‣JSON ‣Media ‣Network ‣Notification ‣Platform ‣Process ‣UI 27 

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PHP in Titanium 

// PHP code goes here 

var heading = document.getElementById("title"); heading.innerHTML = "Hello, World!"; 

$heading = $document->getElementById("title"); $heading->innerHTML = "Hello, World!"; 

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PHP Info date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago'); ini_set('default_charset', 'utf8'); ini_set('display_errors', 'Off'); function getPhpInfo() { ob_start(); phpinfo(); return ob_get_clean(); } $document->write('<pre>' . getPhpInfo() . '</pre>'); 

Desktop Apps with PHP and Titanium • Ben Ramsey PHP caveats ‣echo does not work as expected ‣Titanium state transitions (links) do not send requests ‣Pre-processed scripts (.php) are processed at compile/build time ‣Cannot inject classes defined in .php into runtime code with include/ require 36 

The client-server
relationship does not exist. 

Planet PHP Demo 

Wrapping up… 

Desktop Apps with PHP and Titanium • Ben Ramsey Questions? ‣I blog at benramsey.com. ‣I tweet at @ramsey. ‣Please rate this presentation at joind.in/2259. ‣Get the source code for my examples at GitHub. ‣Find out more about Titanium at appcelerator.com. ‣My company is Moontoast. Check us out at moontoast.com. Follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook. 40 

Desktop Apps with PHP and Titanium Copyright © 2010 Ben Ramsey. Some rights reserved. Presented on November 2, 2010 at Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara, CA. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. For uses not covered under this license, please contact the author. 

Desktop Apps with PHP and Titanium • Ben Ramsey Photo Credits ‣Titan-crystal bar from Wikimedia Commons ‣Titanium-cylinder from Wikimedia Commons ‣Apollo 17 full Earth photograph from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio ‣titanium cylinder, GRADE 2 quality from Wikimedia Commons ‣Surface of a compressed cylinder of titanium from High-Res Images of Chemical Elements ‣Guggenheim Museum Bilbao from Wikimedia Commons 42