Re: PHP Standalone Engine?

Hello, You can also take a look at http://www.indigostar.com/microweb.htm It's a very small webserver that fully supports PHP and we've succesfully used it to release 7000 CDs with an encoded site (ioncube) for a large company. Alexandru -- Alexandru COSTIN Chief Operating Officer http://www.interakt.ro/ +4021 312 5312 "Galen P. Zink" <galen@myhome.net> wrote in message news:BB2ABF99-A348-11D7-81D9-000393987514@myhome.net... > 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 >