Smushed together with slight modification are:
- https://github.com/phpgl/flappyphpant
- https://github.com/mario-deluna/php-glfw
- https://github.com/phpgl/visu
- https://nativephp.com (Laravel + Electron)
It's a demo OpenGL graphical game, written in PHP.
This is minimal brute-force example to execute php-glfw and electron together. And the entire Laravel stack to serve a static launch page, for good measure.
To run: run the installer in the latest release
To build:
git clone https://github.com/wiretail/flappyphpant-nativephp.git
cd flappyphpant-nativephp
composer install
php artisan native:install
# say yes to both questions
php artisan native:serve
# to run it locally again
php artisan native:build
# win-x64 only
# if you get an error popup, say ok, and it will probably build fine anywayIf it worked, the installer executable with be in ./dist/flappyphpant-nativephp-1.0.0-setup.exe Run it to install the electron app -- it may be very slow. (And it should still work even with an error/popup during the process.)
Note: When the app runs you'll get a demo warning from BoxedApp's Packer. Click OK.
This is because NativePHP expects a single "php.exe" file in php-bin's PHP zip, and will fail otherwise. Creating a real static build with GLFW included seems like a "fun" larger project, nor can nativephp/electron handle a zip with multiples files. So the PHP instance used here is a normal minimal many-file version that is then packed with trial version of Packer. That is then copied over the /vendor/nativephp/php-bin/bin/win/x64/php-8.3.zip file as a post composer install/update command.
One could fork nativephp/php-bin to add the new zip/exe file, and either actually build it statically, or also fork nativephp/electron and update nativephp\electron\resources\js\php.js to handle multiple files in it's currently hardcoded unzip routine.
It's very much a hack though, so...that's how it works right now. And it'll crash if you minimize the game window.