PHP to .exe

[dmwelch]

Hello,
I have built a small website/"program" in php and html. I was wondering if there was any way to make that a stand alone .exe. It would have to be able to connect to the internet as part of it must communicate with my website. Let me know if this is possible and if it is something I could learn quickly.
Thanks,
DW

[MyFriendIsATaco]

I'm going to learn towards the "No" side on that one. at least, you can't do it by its self, there MAY be something out there for it, but it would be a 3rd party thing.

[kortex]

Well I don't know about quickly, but if you created a Flash EXE, you could use LoadVars to get and pass data to your website, or you could compile the SWF into an EXE using either Zinc or SWF studio to get even mor system capabilities, but without knowing specifically, what it is you are trying to do, it is hard to say how long it would take to convert to an EXE version.

[MyFriendIsATaco]

he wasnt referring to a flash .exe, at least i dont think, i thought he was referring to a strictly PHP/HTML website being bundled into an .exe

[kortex]

he wasnt referring to a flash .exe, at least i dont think, i thought he was referring to a strictly PHP/HTML website being bundled into an .exe

Well in that case, no. I actually am not sure what he meant so I thought I would throw those options out there.

[dmwelch]

The only problem with the flash idea is that I don't know if it will accept everything I want to do inside the movie. I actually tried that option first but parts of the scripts such as iframes and others will not transfer into a flash program. I would love to do it that way if I could though!
Thanks,
DW

[kortex]

Well if it is just text or even a few images, the textarea component can act like an iFrame.

[jasonsplace]

You could always try something like this. I've never tried it but it's always looked interesting. There are a few other PHP to EXE compilers that you can look up on Google but this seems to be the most popular.

[dmwelch]

problem is that the iframe uses php as well. I think it is just too complicated for flash. LOL!

[1stbite]

you could load a complete LAMP environment onto disk or pen drive and run the site within a localhost server which means you could take it to any windows based machine.

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html (read install for zip installation)