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Pyrite
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The past few years I have been working on a personal project, an address book so to speak. It is PHP with an MySQL backend that runs on Apache/Win32 on my localmachine. I have been using it consistently since Aug 2003, and have about 275 records. What I am thinking is I might want to make it a stand-alone app somehow. May be in another language if necessary, but keep the database backend, or use like SQLite or something. Cause I think my program would be useful for others, but the requirement for a php/mysql server on localhost is kind of a bit much for most.

Not necessarily a MS Windows app, but a graphical one, perhaps that is portable across MS Windows, OSX and X11.

I dunno. Any ideas.
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check out php-gtk to get your started on a desktop style app using php. Haven't played with it heaps but it looks promising.
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or check out: http://wapache.sourceforge.net/ if you only care about w32..
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Today I started on a version with Microweb, PHP4, ADOdb and SQLite. Didn't know about Wapache, but I'll check that out for sure as well, looks cool.

I've dabbled with php-gtk a bit for Win32, and I think it is a bit too much to handle for now.
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wapache does look quite cool, I will have to set some time aside to play with it. As for now it will sit in my bookmarks under look at agian soon.
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I wonder if wapache is a bit more stable now.

I tried using it a couple of months ago and it crashed about every 4th request I made.

Cool idea all the same :D
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