Running PHP on a client only...

I was wondering if it is possible to run a PHP program on a web browser
on a local PC without having a server, such as Apache, installed
locally? I am thinking about creating an application the will configure
Linux config files based on input from webpages.

I have seen this done on the CUPS setup/admin pages: http://localhost:631/

....do these pages use php, perl or what?

Miki

In article <lfydna3XqYbYge7fRVn-qA@comcast.com>,
michelle <miki@spam_me.net> wrote:
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> I was wondering if it is possible to run a PHP program on a web browser
> on a local PC without having a server, such as Apache, installed
> locally? I am thinking about creating an application the will configure
> Linux config files based on input from webpages.
>
> I have seen this done on the CUPS setup/admin pages: http://localhost:631/
>
> ...do these pages use php, perl or what?
>
> Miki[/color]

Well, php is a server-side language. So, unless there's a server
_somewhere_ that's turning the php code into HTML, my guess would be no.

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michelle wrote:[color=blue]
> I was wondering if it is possible to run a PHP program on a web browser
> on a local PC without having a server, such as Apache, installed
> locally? I am thinking about creating an application the will configure
> Linux config files based on input from webpages.
>
> I have seen this done on the CUPS setup/admin pages: http://localhost:631/
>
> ...do these pages use php, perl or what?
>
> Miki[/color]
If http://localhost:631/ works for you then you have an php server
already running.
Check your php configuration for Doc-root. There you can place your php
files you want to execute by your browser.

Greetings, Urs

I don't know what's the idea (if you want something like the JAVA
Applet it won't work), but you can make your own php desktop
applications using the PHP-GTK bindings.

check http://gtk.php.net

I don't know what's the idea (if you want something like the JAVA
Applet it won't work), but you can make your own php desktop
applications using the PHP-GTK bindings.

check http://gtk.php.net

It is possible to write a simple HTTP daemon in PHP CLI. See
http://www.php.net/sockets/. Not a very robust solution though.