run-time database creation for an application

[chintupintu03]

If we have developed an application, and it is to run on client's PC.

Can we make the executable file for the application? so that the source code need not be copied on client's PC.

For this application to run on client's PC, is it required that there has to be PHP installed on that PC? The application will database to store the records. Can we create this database ( if we make the text file with create statements for various tables), when the application is loaded for the first time on that PC?

[AstroTeg]

PHP is probably not the language you want to use for a client side desktop application. For example, you might want to use C++ or VB or something similar for the desktop app. If its for Windows, there's some tricks you can do for installing a client MS SQL-like server on the client machine for your app to use. And yes, you'd be responsible for creating the database and would need to develop a way to have code do that for you (which is definitely possible).