CDROM database using Mysql and PHP ??

Anon

I have a client who wishes to load his Internet site, to be developed using Mysql and PHP, onto a CDROM.

Is this possible?

Will I have to purchase PHP and/or Mysql?

Thanks for your help everyone

Elizabeth Alderton

Anon

If your planning on giving clients access to the MySQL database via PHP and apache on the CD, it ain't gonna work.....

You still need to have the server on a writable media in order for it to run... however it would be interesting to mount a read only db on a CDrom and then serve your information off that.....

Anyone done this?

Matt Morley
MPCM.org

Elizabeth Alderton wrote:

I have a client who wishes to load his Internet site, to be developed using Mysql and PHP, onto a CDROM.

Is this possible?

Will I have to purchase PHP and/or Mysql?

Thanks for your help everyone

Elizabeth Alderton

Anon

PHP and MySQL are free. In order to develop with them "at home," you'll need to install them both on your computer, and set up a web server as well so you can view the pages as you develop them. (I recommend Apache, also free) All of these distributions maintain a Windows version, if that is the platform you use for development.

You could save the database tables and the php files on a CD, but, once again, you need to have a web server running, and the database server running in order to view the PHP pages.

Links:
http://www.php.net/ (download PHP free)
http://www.mysql.com/ (download MySQL free)
http://www.apache.org/ (download Apache free)
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/tutorials/tutorial4.html
(a good tutorial for installation on a windows platform, and beginning scripts)

I hope that this has been helpful. PHP is definitely worth learning, even if you don't end up using it for your client.

Anon

Write a program to generate a snapshot of all the pages in the database in static form.

The generated site will be completely static, you won't need to purchase anything.

Just send your subscribers a weekly updates to the database.

Of course, there will be no free text search (unless you'll use Java), but you can build a few clever helpful index pages for the same task.

Anon

I think I expressed my opinion not clear enough.

In addition to real database (which is working on website)
you build all possible pages in HTML, by simulating all requests to the database.
You create a website with these static pages, organize them into directory tree, and write them to CD.

Anon

Like Oleg said, you will have to create a snapshot of the website as static HTML. There is a tool developed that will do this but it has a hefty price tag.... XBuilder.

http://www.xbuilder.net

I have also written a bug-filled, slow running, computer crashing program that does almost the same thing. If you'd like, I will gladly send you a copy. It is written in Java (J++ to be exact) and you can modify it to do whatever you'd like.

Jack

Anon

Dear everyone

Thank you for your valuable comments and suggestions.

We will probably go the XBuilder route.

Thanks again.

Elizabeth

Anon

Hi Jack,

im very interested in the free tool, you have developed. (Conversion of PHP/Mysql website into static code...)

Is it anywhere downloadable ?

Thanks for reply...

seangates

Well, I know this is old, but this entire thread is wrong. It can be done, but Apache, PHP and MySQL just have to be "installed" in the temp directory using a batch file, or in our case an executable created by Cygwin. Then, when they are closed, they will be deleted from the temp directory.

Sean