Introduction

PebView is a lightweight native webview wrapper that allows displaying HTML content in its own native GUI window. It empowers you to leverage web technologies within desktop applications while concealing the fact that the GUI is browser-based.

PebView is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux GTK. It utilizes native GUI to create a web component window: WinForms on Windows, Cocoa on macOS, and GTK on Linux. If you choose to freeze your application, PebView does not bundle heavy GUI toolkits or web rendering engines, keeping the executable file size small.

PebView provides window manipulation features (such as application menus and various dialogs), bidirectional communication between Javascript ↔ PHP, and DOM support.

Requirements

• PHP 8.2 or later
• PHP-FFI extension
• Composer
• Windows x86_64
• Linux x86_64 or arm64
• MacOS x86_64 or arm64(pending)

Installation

composer require kingbes/pebview

API

• use Kingbes\PebView\Window; Window Class->View Details
• use Kingbes\PebView\Dialog; Dialog Class->View Details

Enums

use Kingbes\PebView\WindowHint; Window Hints

• WindowHint::None Free Transform
• WindowHint::Min Minimize Window
• WindowHint::Max Maximize Window
• WindowHint::Fixed Fixed Window Size

use Kingbes\PebView\DialogBtn; Dialog Buttons

• DialogBtn::Ok Ok Button
• DialogBtn::OkCancel Ok Button/Cancel Button
• DialogBtn::YesNo Yes Button/No Button

use Kingbes\PebView\DialogLevel; Dialog Levels

• DialogLevel::Info Info Dialog
• DialogLevel::Warning Warning Dialog
• DialogLevel::Error Error Dialog

use Kingbes\PebView\FileAction; File Actions

• FileAction::Open Open File
• FileAction::OpenDir Open Directory
• FileAction::Save Save File

Building

For prerequisites, please read link

./source/build.cmd // windows

./source/linux.sh // linux

./source/macos.sh // macos