Put my website on a CD... ugh

lazzerous

I've been looking through docs for different PHP compilers and all of them say the same thing - MySQL can't be compiled as well - the resulting executable must access the db remotely.

One of my clients is looking to distribute his PHP-driven website on CD for several clients who are... old, outdated and stubborn.

Being that this would be on a static CD, the need for the data to be dynamic would dissolve...

Is there any way to take a dynamic website and grab all the outputted (post-parsing) code, rename all files from .php to .html, and modify all resulting scripts to alter form submission locations and href locations from .php to .html?

I'm sure there is and it's not very difficult but my brain isn't liking me today.

Any directional assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
-=Lazz=- 😕

mrhappiness

You're looking for tools like webreaper

lazzerous

Unfortunately the site I've been asked to get on a cd is using custom file extensions, so without PHP, the browser won't read them as html.

And due to the dynamic nature of the website, the crawler would generate thousands of pages, which updating manually would be insane.

Any other ideas?

Thanks
-=Lazz=-

thorpe

maybe you could use sqlite instead of mysql?

inerte

Customize Knoppix to run Apache/Mysql/PHP and put the site there? The data would live as long the computer is running, or it can be emailed, but it's an alternative if you don't care about this.

lozza1978

You can edit the Apache.conf file to load any file extention, html,php, jsp, 001, etc

hope this helps you

lazzerous

editing the apache.conf file won't help if I'm distributing straight html files on a cd.

What I may look into doing is creating a db abstraction layer that will allow me to use either MySQL or Flat files - with flat files I would be able to use a PHP compiler and just include the flat files on the disc.

Anyone have any thoughts on this concept?

Thanks again for all the feedback 🙂

fr8

if your looking to distribute on a cd. use the php compiler and the flat files. this will be the easiest.

LoganK

Aha, so you're the one who bumped this!