Re: [PHP] launch app
No way. PHP is server based you can't trigger anything on the client side. Use Javascript, ActiveX, XUL or the like. What's the best way to send an executable to a client desktop in PHP? I'm doing a project where we need to check and see which files need to be updated on a client-desktop. The idea is for a user to visit the website, an executable launches, checks the files on the drive, and then sends the data back to the website. It's all on the up and up - I'm not trying to do anything bad to the user. The site is designed to maintain a product that they're purchasing from us. Screens will explain what's going on. I also believe the browser will display something - not completely sure how to trigger this, but I think it's something to do with having executables signed - I'd appreciate if you have any advice on how to do this also. Thanks, Ed -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] launch app
The only thing that you can do is the same as sourceforge.net does. Bring up a web page that says yadadad download this etc. then in the header make it redirect to a file on the web server after 3 seconds or something. Go download something off sourceforge to see what I'm on about. :) I have the same problem. I wrote a program to gather stuff of a persons machine. Works like a charm. Written in visual basic using only API calls and myvbsql calls to write to a mysql database. We put it in the login script. My boss wanted to make it like windows update so it runs when you visit our intranet. I put that idea in the 'good idea but too hard basket'. :) -Original Message- From: Ed Lazor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 14 September 2005 11:50 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] launch app What's the best way to send an executable to a client desktop in PHP? I'm doing a project where we need to check and see which files need to be updated on a client-desktop. The idea is for a user to visit the website, an executable launches, checks the files on the drive, and then sends the data back to the website. It's all on the up and up - I'm not trying to do anything bad to the user. The site is designed to maintain a product that they're purchasing from us. Screens will explain what's going on. I also believe the browser will display something - not completely sure how to trigger this, but I think it's something to do with having executables signed - I'd appreciate if you have any advice on how to do this also. Thanks, Ed -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] launch app
On Tue, September 13, 2005 9:19 pm, Ed Lazor wrote: What's the best way to send an executable to a client desktop in PHP? readfile(/full/path/to/file.exe); I'm doing a project where we need to check and see which files need to be updated on a client-desktop. The idea is for a user to visit the website, an executable launches, checks the files on the drive, and then sends the data back to the website. Not gonna happen. Web browsers simply do *NOT* do that. Well, MS IE does that, with signed content, from Microsoft, when you update MS software through their browser. So, I guess one solution is to write your own OS, and your own Browser, and then you can do whatever you want. :-) It's all on the up and up - I'm not trying to do anything bad to the user. The site is designed to maintain a product that they're purchasing from us. Screens will explain what's going on. I also believe the browser will display something - not completely sure how to trigger this, but I think it's something to do with having executables signed - I'd appreciate if you have any advice on how to do this also. If your application is already on their desktop, you can add some simple code to it to phone home and check for updates in YOUR application, and to download them, and install them. But at no point in this will there be a web browser, nor PHP. Unless you write it in PHP-GTK http://gtk.php.net :-) Actually, I suppose you could pay MS enough money to get your product included in their distribution channels, and installed/upgraded through that process... That's going to cost a LOT more than just DIY in your own application. But obviously if the 300-pound gorilla is shoving your bananas down every throat, then maybe that's a good thing. For you and your bananas. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] launch app
What's the best way to send an executable to a client desktop in PHP? I'm doing a project where we need to check and see which files need to be updated on a client-desktop. The idea is for a user to visit the website, an executable launches, checks the files on the drive, and then sends the data back to the website. It's all on the up and up - I'm not trying to do anything bad to the user. The site is designed to maintain a product that they're purchasing from us. Screens will explain what's going on. I also believe the browser will display something - not completely sure how to trigger this, but I think it's something to do with having executables signed - I'd appreciate if you have any advice on how to do this also. Thanks, Ed
