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[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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>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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