<s>
wxPHP	B-Language
stands	O
for	O
"	O
wxWidgets	B-Language
for	O
PHP	B-Application
"	O
and	O
is	O
a	O
PHP	B-Application
extension	I-Application
that	O
wraps	O
the	O
wxWidgets	B-Language
library	B-Library
,	O
which	O
allows	O
writing	O
multi-platform	B-Operating_System
desktop	O
applications	O
that	O
make	O
use	O
of	O
the	O
native	O
graphical	O
components	O
available	O
to	O
the	O
different	O
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
supports	O
the	O
three	O
major	O
operating	O
systems	O
:	O
Windows	O
,	O
Linux	B-Application
and	O
Mac	B-Operating_System
OS	I-Operating_System
X	I-Operating_System
by	O
using	O
the	O
PHP	B-Application
language	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Applications	O
are	O
written	O
in	O
PHP	B-Application
language	I-Application
,	O
and	O
since	O
it	O
is	O
an	O
interpreted	O
language	O
,	O
it	O
does	O
not	O
require	O
an	O
intermediate	O
compilation	O
step	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
run	O
the	O
application	O
,	O
provided	O
the	O
PHP	B-Application
interpreter	I-Application
has	O
the	O
extension	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Near	O
2003	O
,	O
a	O
group	O
of	O
enthusiastic	O
people	O
started	O
writing	O
on	O
mailing	O
lists	O
and	O
forums	O
presenting	O
the	O
idea	O
of	O
a	O
PHP	B-Application
extension	I-Application
that	O
wrapped	O
the	O
wxWidgets	B-Language
library	B-Library
in	O
a	O
similar	O
way	O
to	O
what	O
PHP-GTK	B-Language
does	O
for	O
GTK+	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
SourceForge	B-Application
project	O
was	O
created	O
and	O
many	O
people	O
joined	O
in	O
an	O
effort	O
to	O
move	O
the	O
cause	O
forward	O
and	O
make	O
it	O
a	O
reality	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
the	O
join	O
,	O
the	O
first	O
commits	O
were	O
done	O
to	O
the	O
CVS	B-Application
repository	O
on	O
SourceForge	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
commits	O
consisted	O
of	O
wrapping	O
the	O
class	O
,	O
wxFrame	O
and	O
some	O
other	O
basic	O
controls	O
,	O
this	O
is	O
when	O
wxPHP	B-Language
first	O
saw	O
the	O
light	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Inspired	O
on	O
wrapper	O
generators	O
like	O
SWIG	B-Application
,	O
development	O
was	O
started	O
for	O
a	O
simple	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
that	O
read	O
the	O
output	O
of	O
GCCXML	O
ran	O
over	O
wxWidgets	B-Language
and	O
transformed	O
into	O
a	O
serialized	O
PHP	B-Application
array	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
having	O
some	O
basic	O
functionality	O
and	O
controls	O
,	O
an	O
application	O
was	O
written	O
using	O
wxPHP	B-Language
itself	O
,	O
to	O
assist	O
the	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
on	O
the	O
selection	O
of	O
class	O
methods	O
that	O
it	O
could	O
handle	O
correctly	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
August	O
2011	O
Jefferson	O
González	O
wrote	O
an	O
email	O
to	O
current	O
maintainer	O
offering	O
to	O
make	O
a	O
website	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
boost	O
wxPHP	B-Language
presence	O
as	O
attract	O
more	O
people	O
and	O
contributors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
the	O
website	O
was	O
up	O
and	O
running	O
,	O
he	O
started	O
playing	O
with	O
the	O
wxPHP	B-Language
sources	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Later	O
,	O
decided	O
to	O
enable	O
more	O
methods	O
and	O
classes	O
,	O
discovering	O
on	O
the	O
way	O
that	O
many	O
features	O
were	O
not	O
supported	O
by	O
the	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
and	O
extension	O
itself	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
several	O
emails	O
previous	O
developer	O
came	O
with	O
the	O
idea	O
of	O
parsing	O
the	O
XML	B-Protocol
output	O
generated	O
by	O
Doxygen	B-Language
from	O
the	O
wxWidget	B-Language
documentation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
took	O
the	O
task	O
granted	O
and	O
started	O
improving	O
the	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
until	O
it	O
was	O
re-written	O
,	O
adding	O
lacking	O
documentation	O
and	O
many	O
features	O
that	O
would	O
enable	O
adding	O
more	O
wxWidgets	B-Language
functionality	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
wxPHP	B-Language
now	O
supports	O
around	O
400	O
wxWidgets	B-Language
classes	O
and	O
thousands	O
of	O
methods	O
,	O
making	O
it	O
pretty	O
usable	O
to	O
develop	O
a	O
desktop	O
commercial	O
application	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
project	O
source	O
code	O
is	O
now	O
hosted	O
on	O
GitHub	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
reference	O
generator	O
was	O
written	O
that	O
serves	O
as	O
the	O
documentation	O
of	O
the	O
functionality	O
supported	O
by	O
the	O
wxPHP	B-Language
extension	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Also	O
an	O
interface	O
generator	O
has	O
been	O
written	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
get	O
code	O
completion	O
on	O
IDE	B-Application
's	I-Application
like	O
NetBeans	B-Application
and	O
Eclipse	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Planning	O
is	O
undergoing	O
to	O
re-write	O
the	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
yet	O
again	O
using	O
a	O
modular	O
and	O
object	O
oriented	O
approach	O
that	O
permits	O
other	O
people	O
to	O
use	O
it	O
to	O
generate	O
code	O
for	O
other	O
PHP	B-Application
wrappers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Support	O
for	O
PHP	B-Application
code	B-Application
generation	I-Application
was	O
added	O
to	O
wxFormBuilder	B-Language
in	O
order	O
to	O
easily	O
create	O
applications	O
,	O
and	O
get	O
people	O
not	O
familiar	O
to	O
the	O
library	B-Library
to	O
get	O
up	O
to	O
speed	O
on	O
learning	O
it	O
.	O
</s>
