PriadoBlender

News

2006-5-5 - The Priadoblender forum/website has moved to http://pb.impressivegames.com.  Also, Verision 1 has been released, so head over to the new site and check it out!

2005-1-21 - Version 0.3 of Priadoblender is now available.  This version includes a couple of bug fixes, as well as a new update feature that allows Priadoblender to patch itself.  If you have any suggestions or comments post them on the board or email them to me(mark@impressivegames.com).

2004-11-02 - Once you've voted (and if you're eligible to vote in the US elections you should), you can spend the rest of the day playing with the new release of PriadoBlender. Version 0.2 features a newer architecture, a GUI for doing the blending, the ability to pull in included files and more. The package itself is still GPL, but blended EXE's can be distributed under the PHP license, meaning you can release commercial applications built with PriadoBlender. The new file is in the downloads section. The documentation will be updated in the near future (any volunteers?).

2004-10-26 - A new version of Priadoblender is on the way courtesy of Mark Poole from ImpressiveGames.com. It will no longer require the Turk MMCache DLL, thereby removing the GPL requirement and allowing a more free PHP license on the package and on the distributed components. Stay tuned for the release.

2004-03-23 - This site is back online, while the SVN repository of the source code is not. This server was the victim of a DDOS attack followed by someone cracking the box and defacing all of the pages. Because of other priorities, this site was unavailable for a few weeks, but is now back online. Unfortunately, in the interim, the server that was providing SVN repository services was struck by lightning and that machine hasn't been entirely put back together. Please bear with me.

2003-09-28 - Version 0.1 released. Go ahead and try it. It's in the download section. Since this is the first release, future releases may entirely change how they work, may require a complete uninstall/reinstall, etc.

2003-09-21 - The initial release is fairly close. PriadoBlender works similarly to the PHPCompiler many of you used from a few years ago, but is a complete rewrite.

About PriadoBlender

PriadoBlender is a tool to let you distribute your PHP scripts as an executable EXEs. It is similar to the PHPCompiler that was available for a couple of months a year or 2 ago. PriadoBlender isn't a true compiler in the computer science sense of the term. True compilers take the high-level code and turn it into machine/assembly code. Instead, PriadoBlender takes your PHP code and the PHP interpretor itself and blends them into standalone, PHP executable goodness.

Then: In the beginning, PHP was built for the web and the web alone. The entire language was geared toward churning out HTML. It was always installed in a web server environment.

Now: PHP has evolved into a general purpose, powerful language. It can be used on the commandline for text-based software and even full-blown server daemons and GUI applications. Unfortunately, despite all this evolution, it still requires an interpretor running on the machine. This can be a problem if you've written one of these great applications and want to distribute it. You either have to manage the installation of a PHP setup for a user (which sometimes is in conflict with an existing installation) or completely leave it up to the user. The PriadoBlender changes that by giving you a way to distribute your PHP application as a standalone binary. No PHP installation whatsoever is required by the user of your shiny, new EXE.

PriadoBlender Team
Mark Poole - Lead Developer
J Wynia - Project Coordinator and Developer

About this site:
This site is powered by PHP/MySQL on a RedHat Linux machine and runs PragmaCMS. The forum is running Phorum 5 and the initial design (the HTML and CSS was completely redone) came from OSWD. The installer is built using NSIS.