[nycphp-talk] using PHP for an offline / CD-ROM presentation
Jeff Wilhelm
jwilhelm at summit7solutions.com
Wed May 26 12:27:43 EDT 2004
You can always look into http://www.indigostar.com/microweb.htm as well.
inforequest wrote:
> You might consider a Linux Live CD setup, with instructions for the
> user to boot from the CD.
>
> Knoppix and Gentoo come to mind... they boot fast and are way
> compatible, and you end up in a full LAMP environment for running your
> ap. Not sure of licensing issues but you can check that out.
>
> I did this with a library situation where they had a bunch of old PCs
> networked but unworthy of M$ upgrades. Booted them all with a liveCD
> and custom desktop, and never looked back (486's and PII's still
> running virtually overhead free to this day).
>
> If you like this idea, check out the K12 linix project for an example
> of how some guys did this really, really well (although they use RH
> and not a liveCD, because they need alot of stuff)
>
> http://www.k12ltsp.org/
>
> -=john
>
>
>
>
>
> Joe Crawford Jr. jcrawford-at-codebowl.com |nyphp 04/2004| wrote:
>
>> :(
>>
>> thanks for the information.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott Mattocks" <crisscott at netzero.com>
>> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 11:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] using PHP for an offline / CD-ROM
>> presentation
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> PHP-GTK 1.0 doesn't work with PHP5. If you want to use it with PHP5
>>> you'll have to wait until PHP-GTK 2.0 comes out.
>>>
>>> Joe Crawford Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> bleh PHP-GTK,
>>>>
>>>> it seems nice but i cant find any info on how to install it with
>>>> php 5,
>>>>
>>>>
>> i
>>
>>
>>>> finally got php5 and apache working on windows :)
>>>>
>>>> Joe Crawford
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Scott Mattocks" <crisscott at netzero.com>
>>>> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 11:27 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] using PHP for an offline / CD-ROM
>>>> presentation
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Jayesh Sheth wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> * PHP-GTK - http://gtk.php.net/ + SQLite
>>>>>> I looked into PHP-GTK and played with it a bit. It looks nice,
>>>>>> but I am still confused by the wide variety of tools available
>>>>>> for it,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>> especially
>>
>>
>>>>>> on Windows. And I am not sure if PHP-GTK programs can talk to
>>>>>> SQLite.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>> If
>>
>>
>>>>>> they can, I am not sure how to package my PHP-GTK programs along
>>>>>> with the PHP binary and the SQLite database on a CD. Can anyone
>>>>>> recommend a good book on PHP-GTK ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> PHP-GTK is not much more than a CLI program that creates its own
>>>>> GUI. Anything you can do with a "normal" PHP application you can
>>>>> do with PHP-GTK. Unfortuanately I haven't found any books
>>>>> dedicated to PHP-GTK yet. Adam and David's PHP Cookbook does
>>>>> have a chapter on PHP-GTK though. For me the hardest part of
>>>>> getting any GUI stuff running was trying to get PHP-GTK installed
>>>>> with all of the goodies. I still can't get Scintilla to work with
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Scott Mattocks _______________________________________________
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