Re: 'Mobile' PHP

On 2011-09-23, at 4:27 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > OK, I can see 'PHP for Android' which seems to have stalled, and I've been > playing with other options, but I'm not currently happy with any of this 'mobile' > stuff. > > The 'problem' is quite simple ... While mobile broadband might work in some quite > limited areas of the UK - like in bigger towns - it's reliability even in smaller towns is > simply getting worse! So a number of my customers have been asking me to provide a backup system > which is working fine on laptops, but these are a little cumbersome when the guys have to work away > from the vehicles. Tablets via broadband work ... while one can get a signal ... and in many areas > around here even getting a PHONE signal depends on where you stand ... so I need a working local PHP > setup which can take over and provided things like access codes and the like while out of range, and > update the main database when back in range. > > Android, mobile windows and the like currently seem very restrictive when it comes to this type > of development, so has anybody got any ideas on how to proceed? I though that Android was > essentially a strangled version of Linux, so it should be able to run any Linux application? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > Depending in what has to be done, could you use HTML5 with local storage and sync back up later? AFAIK android runs java programs using a custom JVM. So any app on those devices will need to run in java. Not sure that you couldn't port the php engine to that, and it would be an interesting task. Bastien Koert 905-904-0334