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One of the aspects of PHP often overlooked by the programmer is its ability to act as a command line interpreter through COM, CORBA, and the new PHP-GTK to create applications that present the user with a Graphical User Interface (GUI). There are many situations where PHP is the ideal choice to use as the language for the backend of a simple desktop GUI or interactive command line application.
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Argerich, L. et al. (2003). Non-Web PHP Programming. In: Professional PHP4. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1120-4_21
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