Posted by Rik on 10/24/06 22:38

die.spam@hotmail.com wrote:
> seth.northrop@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

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