What is PHP Desktop?
Mind you, the development workflow you are used to while creating web applications remains the same. The step of turning an existing website into a desktop application is basically a matter of copy and paste.
PHPDesktop is an all-made container that will just swallow your project. With that, you can easily transform an existing website into a desktop application without any modification. When you download PHP Desktop, you will have some set of files and folders; among them, you will have a folder called www in which you will just paste your entire application.
For those who have used WampServer, Xamp or EasyPhp, it won't be a problem to understand the concept. When you are using these local servers, you usually create your projects into a particular folder called www, htdocs, or localweb. It differs from one server to another, but the concept remains the same. That particular folder helps your webserver to know where to run your application (website) from.
PHP Desktop works the same way. The difference is that PHP Desktop does not require any particular installation; it is an all-in-one portable set of all these local servers have and it does all you can do with WampServer or Xamp and others in the same family.
PHP Desktop comes with a .exe file. Whenever you run that .exe, it will go into the www folder and run your index file. I am going to explain this process later in this tutorial.
