I've been playing with GWT lately, and I like the idea a lot. The only downside for me is Java, which I'm not a big fan of. (Please don't argue about Java being better than PHP, it's not the point here, really)
Do you know about any mature and efficient PHP toolkit providing a set of widgets just like GWT does ?
Thanks for your help :)
Edit : To rephrase it, I'm looking for a PHP framework that can generate most of the HTML code for the pages of my applications. PHP-Ext seems to be a pretty good example of what I'm looking for. Do you know about any other project of that kind ?
Nicolas
maybe this FOSS project is something for your needs
http://php-ext.quimera-solutions.com/
Maybe Delphi for PHP will do what you want. I haven't used it though.
You can use Delphi for PHP in this way. But the main idea is UI is also related to clients side so you always need javascript etc.. for achieving a web-UI. Check prado or yii framework which have component/event based architecture and js integrated.
How about http://www.gwtphp.com/ ? It is GWT but it compiles to PHP instead of Java for the serverside. It is not yet officially published though, and I haven't tried yet.
pChart is pretty good.
As an aside, you could use any javascript library, like YUI or Dojo, server-side with Aptana Jaxer.