XUL, one of the more handy technologies on the web today, can be confusing for some. Once you create one application, however, you can pick up the rest quite easily. Then you can start connecting the applications together, and with the help of this new article from phpPatterns.com, it's even easier.

In this new piece, the author shows you how to connect XUL applications to PHP (and to anything else from there). The sample application that they give is a simple login form that merely echos out the contents of the POST request once the button is pressed. They, of course, give all of the code and scripting needed to help you create your own. Then, they get a bit more detailed and show you a phpRequest object to help you parse the inputs of an XUL form.

XUL, while extremely underused, has the potential to be one of the more powerful languages out on the 'net today. Not only is it mature enough to use on most day-to-day scripts, but it's also XML based and compliant to quite a few specs out there...