Have a look here, this may help:
http://www.triplehash.com/content.php?id=26
Regards,
Craig
"Galen P. Zink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Well, having a solid product that people can look at offline has been a
> major selling point in the past. The customers we cater to appreciate a
> physical product. We could give them HTML that sends them online, but
> we could just as easily give them a card with an URL on it and not
> waste CD media for a 1K shortcut file. I can't confess to completely
> understand these people who really want a local product for something
> that must be uploaded to the internet in the end and is dependent on
> our servers to handle checkout and order processing - it's just a
> psychological thing, I guess.
>
> I'm trying to investigate how hard it would be to get a demo product on
> a CD that basically goes through an installer process and installs some
> back end PHP/MySQL stuff so a demo can be run locally. What exactly
> would be involved in compiling a PHP client with the source myself -
> are there any existing products along these lines? It probably wouldn't
> be practical to develop a whole project our selves, but if there was
> something already out there, we might use it.
>
> -Galen
>
> On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 11:04 AM, Michael A Smith wrote:
>
> > Why not have them all do that? HTML that re-directs? Other than taking
> > the source, compiling yourself, or taking the pre-compiled windows
> > binaries and including them, that's the only way.
> >
> > -Michael
> > On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 09:57, Galen P. Zink wrote:
> >> I work for a small networking company. We're working on a piece of
> >> software that will be run server-side with PHP and MySQL. It allows
> >> the
> >> user to develop an online store and handles all the complex shopping
> >> cart stuff with ease. It is a port of an originally client-side
> >> application. We would like to be able to hand out demo discs that do
> >> not require the internet to try it out - having a standalone try-out
> >> version is a big source of customers.
> >>
> >> Is there any kind of standalone PHP/MySQL engine that could be
> >> reasonably installed from a CD and run on most Windows machines? If
> >> there was some method to compile the PHP into a binary or otherwise
> >> protect it, it would be really good because our company would not be
> >> too excited about handing out the near-complete source to our product
> >> on all the demo discs. It would be nice if there was support for
> >> non-Windows OSes, but Windows is by far the majority in market share
> >> and the other OSes could easily just pop into an HTML document that
> >> directs them to our online version.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Galen P. Zink
> >>
> >
>
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