I recently built an online survey and, being a clever so and so, used the GD library to display the results with 'on the fly' bar and pie charts. Unfortunately, this cleverness is possibly going to bite me in the a** as my clients want a CD to send around and view offline. The online site has a large number of options and categories so there's potentially 100s of graphs depending on choices made. The site also makes use of passed variables so there's only a handful of pages. What's the easiest way to take this PHP site onto an 'offline' format? My ideal solution is some sort of 'stand alone' PHP engine but I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist. The only other option is to build static pages and create images for each of the possible graphs, something that would be a mountain of work... Jon
Search for 'server on a CD' or 'server on a stick'. There are a number of free and commercial versions about that do basically this.
that stand-alone PHP engine does exist. http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html simply extract the files to a folder and off you go