Running PHP on desktop?
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:08 pm
I hope this is the right forum for this question.
Is it possible, or feasible, to run PHP as a desktop application, independent of a server?
My immediate interest is to read data from a text file, and construct web pages incorporating that data. PHP's facilities would be well-suited to this task.
I expect I could use Perl, but then I'd have to learn Perl. Or I could run the program on the server, but I'd have to upload the text file to the server, and download the resulting web pages.
I've seen references to "GTK", but that sounds like way more trouble than it's worth.
If it is possible, which version(s) of PHP will run under Win98?
Is it possible, or feasible, to run PHP as a desktop application, independent of a server?
My immediate interest is to read data from a text file, and construct web pages incorporating that data. PHP's facilities would be well-suited to this task.
I expect I could use Perl, but then I'd have to learn Perl. Or I could run the program on the server, but I'd have to upload the text file to the server, and download the resulting web pages.
I've seen references to "GTK", but that sounds like way more trouble than it's worth.
If it is possible, which version(s) of PHP will run under Win98?