PHP-GTK: Time to Find Out How Much I can Chew

One of the crucial parts of learning a new programming language (or aspect of it) is having a practical application for it.



Like PHP-GTK; now that I've got a nice GTK-based environment set up I'm ready to start developing GUI apps in GTK... the biggest obstacle (aside from the time factor) has been settling on a project to get started with. (I'm setting aside my original plans for a Blog Management GUI for the time being, since I'm also planning the site format in the forseeable future.)



Since I'm also interested in getting used to working with raw TCP/IP sockets, I've decided to build a PHP-GTK based FTP client, based on the skeletal FTP class I wrote last month (I won't be using PHP's built-in FTP functions, that's how much of a masochist I am.)



I've been getting back into the PHP-GTK mindset (Widgets, Packing, Connecting Signals, all that fun stuff) this afternoon, and now that I begin to think about how a nice FTP client should behave, I'm wondering what I've gotten myself into. I suspect the program will wind up being a crufty kluge by the time I'm done with it, but I'll be too proud of having creating a useful GUI app at all to mind.

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