Windows package/binary

[seth.northrop]

Hi,

I am several years removed from PHP (different career path) so I've
lost touch with some of the innovations. I was wondering if anyone has
put together a simple windows binary that includes MySQL + PHP and a
webserver?

Basically, I want an easy way to distribute a PHP and MySQL application
to another non-technical windows user and don't have the luxury of a
server sitting somewhere. Basically, I'd like them to be able to click
an icon, launch the services, and then launch a web browser pointing to
localhost. I don't care about the code being compiled or hidden.

It doesn't help that when I did do a lot of programming that I did it
exclusively on Unix machines so even then I wasn't too in tune with the
windows world.

Is there some acceptable standard way of dealing with this?

[flamer die.spam]

se***********@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I am several years removed from PHP (different career path) so I've
lost touch with some of the innovations. I was wondering if anyone has
put together a simple windows binary that includes MySQL + PHP and a
webserver?

Basically, I want an easy way to distribute a PHP and MySQL application
to another non-technical windows user and don't have the luxury of a
server sitting somewhere. Basically, I'd like them to be able to click
an icon, launch the services, and then launch a web browser pointing to
localhost. I don't care about the code being compiled or hidden.

It doesn't help that when I did do a lot of programming that I did it
exclusively on Unix machines so even then I wasn't too in tune with the
windows world.

Is there some acceptable standard way of dealing with this?

ezphp is great for this, its only a few mb's and includes phpmyadmin,
apparently wamp is good too havent tried it myself.

Flamer.

[Rik]

di******@hotmail.com wrote:

se***********@gmail.com wrote:

>Hi,

I am several years removed from PHP (different career path) so I've
lost touch with some of the innovations. I was wondering if anyone
has put together a simple windows binary that includes MySQL + PHP
and a webserver?

Basically, I want an easy way to distribute a PHP and MySQL
application to another non-technical windows user and don't have the
luxury of a server sitting somewhere. Basically, I'd like them to
be able to click an icon, launch the services, and then launch a web
browser pointing to localhost. I don't care about the code being
compiled or hidden.

It doesn't help that when I did do a lot of programming that I did it
exclusively on Unix machines so even then I wasn't too in tune with
the windows world.

Is there some acceptable standard way of dealing with this?

ezphp is great for this, its only a few mb's and includes phpmyadmin,
apparently wamp is good too havent tried it myself.

Or xampp, works very handy.

For the use on USB-sticks, and to create your mobile environment without
installing anything, you could use WOS (Webserver On a Stick). That has
it's limitations though.

--
Grtz,

Rik Wasmus

[seth.northrop]

Thanks.

Do either work better for just zipping up a directory after loading
your PHP pages and mysql tables and shipping it to someone with a
script to launch?

It looks like easyPHP has an installer - is it using dlls, etc. that
need to be installed in order to work? It looks like xmampp can just
be extracted in a directory and run. Am I mistaken?

Rik wrote:

di******@hotmail.com wrote:

se***********@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I am several years removed from PHP (different career path) so I've
lost touch with some of the innovations. I was wondering if anyone
has put together a simple windows binary that includes MySQL + PHP
and a webserver?

Basically, I want an easy way to distribute a PHP and MySQL
application to another non-technical windows user and don't have the
luxury of a server sitting somewhere. Basically, I'd like them to
be able to click an icon, launch the services, and then launch a web
browser pointing to localhost. I don't care about the code being
compiled or hidden.

It doesn't help that when I did do a lot of programming that I did it
exclusively on Unix machines so even then I wasn't too in tune with
the windows world.

Is there some acceptable standard way of dealing with this?

ezphp is great for this, its only a few mb's and includes phpmyadmin,
apparently wamp is good too havent tried it myself.

Or xampp, works very handy.

For the use on USB-sticks, and to create your mobile environment without
installing anything, you could use WOS (Webserver On a Stick). That has
it's limitations though.

--
Grtz,

Rik Wasmus

[flamer die.spam]

se***********@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks.

Do either work better for just zipping up a directory after loading
your PHP pages and mysql tables and shipping it to someone with a
script to launch?

It looks like easyPHP has an installer - is it using dlls, etc. that
need to be installed in order to work? It looks like xmampp can just
be extracted in a directory and run. Am I mistaken?

Its been a while since I have used it, i know easy does have an
installer, I havent tried moving the install directory to another pc
though, should be easy to check if it worls or not.

Flamer.

[Rik]

di******@hotmail.com wrote:

se***********@gmail.com wrote:

>Thanks.

Do either work better for just zipping up a directory after loading
your PHP pages and mysql tables and shipping it to someone with a
script to launch?

It looks like easyPHP has an installer - is it using dlls, etc. that
need to be installed in order to work? It looks like xmampp can just
be extracted in a directory and run. Am I mistaken?

Its been a while since I have used it, i know easy does have an
installer, I havent tried moving the install directory to another pc
though, should be easy to check if it worls or not.

I'm not sure about XAMPP, it's been a while since I've used it. Just try it
I guess :)
For ultimate 'click'n'go'-solutions WOS is very qualified, no installing
needed, just doubleclick on the executable, and go (and to my knowledge
even opens a browserwindow directly). It does have the tendency to
overwrite the config files on a restart (or was it a PHP4 5 switch?).
That may require some fiddling, if the normal config does not do.
--
Grtz,

Rik Wasmus