Weird question: client side php

[Hokuszpokusz]

I know its probably not the right forum, but I don't know any better :/ Feel free to direct me to the right forum if you can. Sooo, right on to the real question:

At our company we have an online webshop with php, with a postgres backend. It works, it's nice and such. BUT, my boss had a brilliant idea: we need an offline client too. And it would be soooo nice if we could make use of the existing php code :eek:

Basically what I want to know: it is possible to run the php code on the client pc, in an offline mode, just for browsing our catalogue. I presume it would require a "webserver" with php and a database engine of some sort. Anyone ever heard of such a solution?

Personnally I think its an absurd idea, but as I'm primarely a server side java programmer, I know very little about php (and dont even dare to ask me how I got assigned this php porting thingy...)

Any ideas anyone? Is this thing possible?

[devinemke]

you might want to look at PHP-GTK

[maxpup979]

You can also put a lamp environment on a thumbdrive--take it with you wherever you go. The biggest issue you are going to have is resynching the data that is modified. Now if your apps dont allow for data modification, then you are set. otherwise, this would be quite complicated.