Re: Standalone PHP Client?

Have a look here, this may help: http://www.triplehash.com/content.php?id=26 Regards, Craig "Galen P. Zink" <galen@myhome.net> wrote in message news:CBDC345A-A34A-11D7-81D9-000393987514@myhome.net... > Well, having a solid product that people can look at offline has been a > major selling point in the past. The customers we cater to appreciate a > physical product. We could give them HTML that sends them online, but > we could just as easily give them a card with an URL on it and not > waste CD media for a 1K shortcut file. I can't confess to completely > understand these people who really want a local product for something > that must be uploaded to the internet in the end and is dependent on > our servers to handle checkout and order processing - it's just a > psychological thing, I guess. > > I'm trying to investigate how hard it would be to get a demo product on > a CD that basically goes through an installer process and installs some > back end PHP/MySQL stuff so a demo can be run locally. What exactly > would be involved in compiling a PHP client with the source myself - > are there any existing products along these lines? It probably wouldn't > be practical to develop a whole project our selves, but if there was > something already out there, we might use it. > > -Galen > > On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 11:04 AM, Michael A Smith wrote: > > > Why not have them all do that? HTML that re-directs? Other than taking > > the source, compiling yourself, or taking the pre-compiled windows > > binaries and including them, that's the only way. > > > > -Michael > > On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 09:57, 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. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Galen P. Zink > >> > > >