Just create it online in such a way that you can spider your whole site and
burn it to CD. Granted you will lose the searchability of the DB, but the
contents would all be there, and could easily be indexed so that you could
still find what you are looking for.
Create one page that has a link to all of the DB ID's, titles, descriptions,
etc. Worse case scenario you could still use CTRL-F to find-in-page the
text you are looking for.
Granted this is clumsy compared to what you had in mind, but that is a long
trip. You would be better off to use Delphi, VB, or something similar to
write a binary app and copy the contents of the MySQL DB to something
appropriate for your programming language and application.
$0.02.
Brian
> I wonder if it's possible to adapt the CGI version of PHP as a Netscape
> plugin, or to associate the extension of php files to some kind of php
> wrapper. This would require distributing a browser with the CD for this
> specific CD, but it could work.
>
> For a Unix-only kludge, I found this page,
> http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html
> It seems to me, by playing with with the application associations, one
> could get php to write to a temporary file, and then use netscape's
> -remote openFile to read it. I imagine, though, that if this works, it
> would be rather unstable.
>
> MySQL would be a whole 'nother can of worms.
>
> Just playing with ideas.
>
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> That which indicates nothing
> introduces everything.
>
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Philip Apostol wrote:
>
> > Can I run a PHP/Apache/MySQL services on a CD-ROM. We have PHP scripts
that
> > handle queries on a large database. We would like to distribute it on a
> > CD-ROM so they could access the database offline. Is it possible? Or
are
> > there any similar solutions for this? Im thinking of a text-file
database
> > and access it via javascript but have no much time to study on this. If
php
> > can be run on the cd-rom, that would be a better solution. But any
> > solution you posted here will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Philip
> >
> >
>
>
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