php pages on CDROM

Anon

Ok, so I got this site written using alot of php. Now my company wants to be able to send out CDROMs to customer with our catalog offerings as they appear on the web site. Can php.exe be used to do this? Other suggestions on how to put parts on my site on CDROM and actually allow users to view them?

jnutter

Your best bet is probably to go down the route of generating a static HTML version of the entire site and burning that to the CDROM.

Any other route (if there even ARE any) would be more headaches than you want to deal with... trust me.

I started going down this road myself a while back and all the research I did basically told me to give up on the idea and figure out how to generate a static version instead.

Check out the article here on phpbuilder about generating static versions of your site for some tips on how to get that done quickly.

nutter

apatel

You could try and install a small webserver such as httpd from omnicron. It may be hard to figure out though.

There are some programs available to complile a website with server side content such as php

jnutter

Think ahead to the customer though... is the customer going to want to install a webserver on their system in order to browse your CDRom?

That's asking quite a bit for a catalog...

Anon

The way I see, there are 2 ways of doing it:
the first, would be using a PHP compiler, but you would have to rewrite some of your code in order to work as a compiled page.

the following link can take you to the compiler I used torun scritps on other computers:
http://www.deskcode.com/phpcompiler/

The second and better alternative would be to run apache and Php directly from the CDROM, but, there is a problem with this solution:
- Apache is easelly ported to the cdrom, since it desn´t put files in the system. PHP, does put a few dlls and the PHP ini in the system, so you need to recompile PHP to use all files in the same directory.

I´ve being wanting to do it myself for quite a while now, but havn´t had the time or a decent compiler.

Let me know how you solved the problem...

Fernando Michelotti