On the PHP-GTK Community site, there's a new tutorial showing how to install the PHP-GTK platform to a Mac OS X machine:

Installation of PHP-GTK 2 on MacOS X 10.4 and 10.5 is actually pretty simple, as it can use the latest PHP-GTK installer, which works just like any other Mac installer.

They include screenshots as a guide to the step-by-step (extremely simple) process of getting the software installed.

For those interested in technical details, a complete list of the prerequisites is given at step 2 of the installation. Download the installer at http://www.kix.in/php-gtk2/PHP-GTK-2.0.0.dmg

The PHP-GTK Community Site has posted about an issue that's been found with PHP-GTK on a Windows Vista machine that can cause problems with how the OS handles memory (by Wim Stockman).

My work station is WinXp system and my friend where I had to create it for has the new Vista and somewhere over 9000 pictures to be managed. On my system everything worked fine, but on my friends system i always got the error can not open file.

Further testing revealed that it was the OS at fault - Vista wasn't handling the memory usage for the application correctly. When it was run directly from the file explorer (versus in the PHP-GTK console) though, it worked just fine.

The long awaited update to the popular interface creation tool for PHP, the PHP-GTK libraries, has been released - PHP-GTK 2:

After a long development and QA cycle, we are proud to release version 2.0 of PHP-GTK. This release, named leap day special, marks PHP-GTK 2 as stable and comes with support for GTK+ versions 2.6 through 2.12. Although support for more recent versions than 2.8 is not 100% complete, we hope to cover as much of the API as possible in upcoming releases.

Several bloggers are also happy about the news including Elizabeth Smith and the PHP-GTK Community site

You can grab this latest download download page on the official PHP-GTK site (and check out the links to some of the great PHP-GTK resources out there too).

On the PHP-GTK Community site, there's this post from Janosch Graf about a PHP-GTK desktop project (a desktop environment inside of a PHP-GTK shell) called php-desktop.

php-desktop emulates a desktop using KDE programs/icons

php-desktop is tested with KDE. It also uses KDE programs (for example kde-open) and KDE icons. php-desktop gets the icon by the mimetype of a file. If the file is a desktop-file php-desktop gets the icon from there.

You can check out a screenshot of the project for a preview of what it's like or just download the archive and try it out for yourself.

The admins over on the PHP-GTK Community site have announced a new resource PHP-GTK ircers can take advantage of - a new bot that hangs out in the #php-gtk channel over on the Freenode IRC network with an aim to be as helpful as possible.

The PHP-GTK.eu community site is now host to an IRC bot named Gataka (for "GTK"), helping users on the Freenode IRC channel for PHP-GTK, at irc://irc.freenode.net/php-gtk.

Currently is has an API interface (for PHP-GTK elements), user tracking and the ability to learn factoids. They're even starting to look for input regarding new features (log publication, in this case).

On the Zend Developer Zone, ahamedjais has written up a tutorial that talks to the reader about the creation of an example PHP desktop application via PHP-GTK.

We have been creating web-applications using PHP since it came into existence, now we can also develop Desktop or Stand alone Applications with PHP-GTK. [...] Thanks to PHP-GTK, we can now build cross platform windowed applications with PHP as well.

He starts off by describing what PHP-GTK is and the essentials (like where to get it and how to test to see if your installation is working with some sample code). He also includes links to more resources about PHP-GTK including a PHP-GTK cookbook and a page describing all of the base GTK classes.