Re: Standalone PHP Client?

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:57, Galen P. Zink wrote: > I work for a small networking company. We're working on a piece of > software that will be run server-side with PHP and MySQL. It allows the > user to develop an online store and handles all the complex shopping > cart stuff with ease. It is a port of an originally client-side > application. We would like to be able to hand out demo discs that do > not require the internet to try it out - having a standalone try-out > version is a big source of customers. > > Is there any kind of standalone PHP/MySQL engine that could be > reasonably installed from a CD and run on most Windows machines? If > there was some method to compile the PHP into a binary or otherwise > protect it, it would be really good because our company would not be > too excited about handing out the near-complete source to our product > on all the demo discs. It would be nice if there was support for > non-Windows OSes, but Windows is by far the majority in market share > and the other OSes could easily just pop into an HTML document that > directs them to our online version. > How about demoing the client app and saying there is also an on-line version...??