Installations with apps

smook

has anyone any experience with developing apps with php and then installing them on a clients server.

i guess i'm wondering how people get around a possibility the client already has PHP set up on their server with some sort of weird ini configuration - and whether the installation of PHP is included with your application install. ???

thoughts?

access9

If your developing a PHP app for a client, it wouldn't hurt to ask to speak with their sys admin to find out what your looking for.

Keep in mind sys admins have the tendancy to not give out a whole lot of info unless you are specific (I know I am one).

smook

yeah.. .thanks. The people we have currently developed for have given us input and we've met with their sys admins too.

However - this is an application that I'd like be able to resell without a lot of customisation. What sorts of installation standard should i look at for those situations - where I don't quite know who might buy in the future or what system stuff they are running. I could just set a standard and say - "Must be on a clean box with its own version of php" - is that unrealistic?

piersk

When you say application, do you mean like a VB-style application, or a web-based one.

If you mean like VB, then I dont think its possible, but if you mean a web-app, the yes it is possible. Im working on one at the moment.

The easiest way to get someone to install (and this is the way I plan to do it) is to tar and gz (for *nix servers) and zip it up (for windows) and then have both available online. Then in the documentation, you tell the admin to first of all go to the install.php page (or whatever you want to call it) and then ask for the details of the server/admin user and then it will run the correct scripts to create the database itself.

tomwerner

there is a way .....

PHP has quickly evolved into one of the fastest growing web scripting languages on the Internet. Serving millions of web sites, PHP has proved itself as reliable, flexible and easy to learn. Many who have programmed with it would agree, that PHP is the ideal scripting language. On the PHP-GTK website, Andrei Zmievski, author of PHP-GTK, demonstrates how the ease and convenience of PHP can be taken to the next level, which is the creation of standalone, cross-platform GUI applications.

the site is http://gtk.php.net

I have had no experience of it, but it's worth a try!