I want to use PHP as a stand alone scripting language. By that I mean
without a web server present and without any HTML in the code. I have done
this in a few tests on a Win 2000 platform and, with just PHP.exe and a DLL
and the ADOdb stuff in a lone directory, I have successfully run some
scripts to talk to a database. All fine and good.
But the real goal is to make this into a tiny runtime environment that I can
deliver to any machine ... Linux or Windows ... and run some performance
tools on the local database engines ... all without any installations on
those host machines (i.e. just copy the files ... run the analysis scripts
and copy the results for post analysis . without changing the host system).
Is there a discussion anywhere about:
Keeping the runtime size to a minimum?
Cross platform got-ya's ? (I read a couple of messages about this, just
now in this group)
If this is a topic that has been covered to death .. then I apologize and
will continue my search of back news articles.
However, if anyone else is interested in this or would care to shed some
light on these issues for me, please contact me either here or directly.
Thanks to all,
Tom