I’ve been developing a metasearch engine for private torrent trackers for about a year and a half. It’s written in PHP (some parts in OOP) and JS, simply because that’s all I know.
Now I want to make a desktop version, a standalone cross platform application.
Basically, what the app does is:
- Send login data to the tracker. (file_get_contents())
- Receive the generated cookies. ($http_response_header)
- Access the search URL using the generated cookies. (file_get_contents())
- Parse the HTML response with regex. (preg_match())
- Show results of all trackers.
Mainly works with remote sites.
The way the program works now, allows the user to add trackers to search without touching the main program code. They function as plug-ins.
That’s the regex part and the most important one. I will maintain both codes (PHP and desktop), so it is important to be able to implement regular expressions in the same way in both applications.
So, I need help on choosing the right language, to do the same I’m doing with PHP.
I leave the program page to help you better understand what it’s about.
Official site
SourceForge
Sorry if this is a a silly question, but I need guidance.
Thanks in advance, azeós.
This could be a good opportunity to learn some Java, but you might also consider a library that gives PHP access to a GUI framework like http://gtk.php.net/.
There’s a related question on SO that might also give you some ideas.