Making a distribultable standalone program in PHP

Question

I\'ve decided to code some applications in PHP that are supposed to run offline in the user\'s machine. However, I can\'t seem to find an user-friendly install wizard to cre

Answer 1

I hate to advocate this, because it just feels so wrong. You would probably be better off using a language inteded for use for stand-alone applications, if you're going to be doing this often or in a production setting.

With that said, a colleague of mine used to use the Bambalam PHP to EXE Compiler for this. He actually had a profitable product built around it.

Bambalam will generate an EXE that doesn't rely on any external DLLs, based on your PHP code.

http://www.bambalam.se/bamcompile/