> Leverage your existing web based PHP skills to write all types of software. CLI scripts, desktop software, network servers and more - this book will give you

> Leverage your existing web based PHP skills to write all types of software. CLI scripts, desktop software, network servers and more - this book will give you the tools, techniques and background necessary to write just about any type of software you can think of, using the PHP you know. Do you remember the beautiful age of 4G languages? Back then, there were a lot of people who thought hey, the biggest problem with programming is languages. All we need to make programming simpler, more reliable and more productive are proper, simple languages that are easy to learn and therefore, easy to program in. The idea eventually died because people finally understood that what you need in order to build good programs are programming skills, not language skills. If "your existing web based PHP skills" are programming skills and you want to develop desktop programs, then by all means go ahead, either in PHP or in anything else. If they aren't, you'll end up writing applications that are just as bad as the web applications you wrote.