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[Jon Baer]

I think its fair to say that PHP is definitely not a standalone  
friendly language, the best effort I have seen is something like Phar  
format but even then you need to bring the kitchen sink to each  
client and its not a format built into PHP itself (shame).

It's sad that there is not anything like a small lightweight portable  
vm you can run around with, there is a project called Slingshot in  
Ruby/Rails which is the idea, a "web browser" with your embedded web  
app.  I think this issue is what Adobe AIR is trying to showcase.

If the code is possibly doable where it is just really data access,  
you might look to port your code to Javascript and the client:   
Firefox with GoogleGears installed.

http://code.google.com/apis/gears/

You can seriously get away with writting a full blown data app w/  
just a single html file and few lines of Javascript.  Im not sure but  
I think trying for a single "master" table and then having some  
mechanism for getting all the "slave" sqlite databases and merging  
(or copy to master) is a piece that is missing for this solution.

- Jon

On Jul 4, 2007, at 12:45 PM, Rick Retzko wrote:

> Hi All –
>
> I’ve developed a web-based audition registration application for  
> musical organizations (All-State Chorus, Regional Band, etc).  The  
> application has been well received, but some organizations are too  
> small to benefit from the web orientation and have asked if the  
> application could be provided in a single-user version without  
> hosting.
>
>
>
> I’m exploring how to rewrite the app in PHP5 using sqlite as the  
> backend database, but haven’t figured out how to package the code  
> so that it can be loaded onto another PC without the need to  
> install and configure an Apache server for each user.  My  
> prospective clients will not be PC-literate beyond medium-weight  
> spreadsheet usage.
>
>
>
> Any and all thoughts are most appreciated!
>
>
>
> Best Regards -
>
>
>
> Rick
>
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