MySQL/PHP on CD?

[Anon]

I've written several useful database/web applications using MySQL/PHP for work in the past few months (not my primary job description, but what the heck). They work great, people can access important data, everybody's happy.

Or not so happy. Now the powers that be are asking for a version of my applications that DO NOT REQUIRE WEB ACCESS on a CDROM.

I don't know where to start. I could translate the whole thing to Access/Visual Basic, but is there another way?

Any leads would be appreciated.

Kevin

[Anon]

Wow -- I've faced this before, but circumvented the issue when the project was dropped.

You've got a couple of options, moving to Access/VB is one -- but hardly desirable. Now that MySQL is under the GPL, you might be able to package the contents of your database onto a CD, along with the Windows (or UNIX) versions of PHP and Apache.

Since you're probably going to a Windows platform, you can have the install program un-pack and install Apache and WinMySQL (though I'm not sure about its licensing) and PHP, then install your PHP scripts.

That's probably your best bet. There's not any way that I know of to access MySQL without access to ODBC or the web, and a filesystem (or CD) doesn't quite cut it.

Good luck -- let me know what else you find out!

--Anthony