Run a PHP website on a CD

Hi,

I wonder if there is a way to run a PHP website (with MySQL database) on a CD? I mean, not a generated HTML pages, but running dynamically on PHP.

Thanks.

 

not sure if you'd be able to do it with mysql, have you considered sqlite at all ?

you can get cmd line versions of php.. it should be possible ..

 

I've never tried it with a CD, but I run Joomla sites from a USB thumb drive all the time for clients. I use JSAS: Joomla Stand Alone Server. I suspect it would fail unless it were a CD-RW, but I know the thumb drive option works.

 

i doubt it..

u need a webserver for it..which umm i dont think would install on a thumbdrive as itself..

 

i think you can create application with php and run it on CD easily . :-? with PHP-GTK ( or a name like it ! )

 

DWebPro is free license for non commercial use.I have never used it myself.. But it looks just the trick for you.. http://www.dwebpro.com/

 

*sigh*...http://jsas.joomlasolutions.com/

 

Hy!

I think it should work with php but in connection with the database I have some doubts. Some time ago I was reading a thesis where a php application was part of the thesis. The guy managed it to burn the whole thing down on a cd. But as far as I remember the database did not work.

regards

steyr

 

Technically you can, since there are servers like wamp which you can run off flash disk drives... So I guess you could if everything is set up nicely...

 

Try this: http://www.uniformserver.com/

I run this software on my PC all the time, but I'm not sure how good it would be on a CD. I guess you would need to run it from a USB drive so that php could write to the session folder and the database could be writeable. Depending on your application, so long as you were only reading data, you should be able to run from a CD

Brew

 

There is a lot of writing going on with the flashdrive route, with logging and sessions and whatnot. So you'd need to make sure you configure everything to write to a local drive.

 

Thanks for all the replies. I thought some of you may have tried it before so that I will not need to do the hard work of researching myself. Haha...

Anyway, I will try some of the suggestions you give.

 

to run php and MSQL on your hardrive

give this a try http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

 

it's definitely possible. http://www.indigostar.com/microweb.htm

 

This defintely looks good, never tried it though:
http://www.indigostar.com/microweb.htm