Thomas Haws wrote:
Shane,
1.
be careful to use cross-platform technologies. Shell scripts, assembly
code, and ActiveX are bad ideas, because we need portable code for the
next steps.
Can you please clarify this? Is PHP a shell script?
PHP is a scripting language, however, it seems to be portable to even
Windose:
http://us2.php.net/install.windows
4. Desktop installation
I'm just a lowly Windoze user, but I've never heard of running a web
app locally via http://locallhost... I know LAMP apps can be run on
Windows, but I've never seen it done by a mere human. For your Uncle,
cousin, and Dad, would it be realistic to expect them to install the
platform for a web app on their local machine?
Mere humans can do it with Mac OS X. :) (System
Preferences->Sharing->Personal Web Sharing)
Mac OS X ships with Apache/PHP already installed.
Being "Windows-free" for many years now I can't really answer this
question but it really seems this is dependent on if someone could write
a nice, simple installer. I wouldn't recommend, however, that mySQL be
installed. This is why I was recommending something like SQLite or
Berkeley DB that isn't a memory/CPU hog.
So is it practical to run Apache/PHP on a PC? Sure, I do it all the
time on my laptop (running Mac OS X). I also run mySQL but it does
take more than its share of memory.
Of course, you don't necessarily need to install Apache/PHP. If the
software has a nice open API then someone may create a nice Palm OS or
Windows app that downloads a copy of the DB and operates disconnected
and syncs back to the on-line DB when connected.
-stacey.
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