Is there a php editor on the market witch can read sources straight from a mysql database?
No....and maybe.
There is no reason why anyone should write a MySQL based editor.
Your best chance to archive this is to find a greedy and/or lunatic programmer that will write you a MySQL-virtual drive.
Yes this IS possible, and at least on windows it does not take much skills.
Well, you could use one of the existing php online editors, and hack the Horde VFS backend in, allowing you to read local files or a database file storage. Another alternative was writing your own FUSE driver. Most sensible however would be to make your database contents available over WebDAV, allowing you to use Eclipse or so
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I am developing an application in the Kohana PHP framework that assesses performance. The end result of the process is a webpage listing the overall scoring and a color coded list of divs and results.
The original idea was to have the option to save this as a non-editable PDF file and email the user. After further research I have found this to be non as straight forward as I hoped.
The best solution seemed to be installing the unix application wkhtmltopdf but as the destination is shared hosting I am unable to install this on the server.
My question is, what's the best option to save a non editable review of the assessment to the user?
Thank you for help with this.
I guess the only way to generate a snapshot, or review how you call it, is by storing it on the server side and only grant access via a read only protocol. So basically by offering it as a 'web page'.
Still everyone can save and modify the markup. But that is the case for every file you generate, regardless of the type of file. Ok, maybe except DRM infected files. But you don't want to do that, trust me.
Oh, and you could also print the files. Printouts are pretty hard to be edited. Though even that is not impossible...
I found a PHP version that is pre-built as a Kohana Module - github.com/ryross/pdfview
I have a small mySQL database and a few simple php based webpages that query the database, generate html tables and present them in the browser. The database is no longer being updated. So, searching and viewing subsets of the data is all that is required.
Some users are interested in distributing the searchable database on a cd or usb memory stick. SQLite seems to offer the answer, but I don't understand what is needed to make this work. What will be required to make a web browser based "app" work from a memory stick in the absence of a server like xampp?
XAMPP Lite from http://portableapps.com/apps/development/xampp
What you want is called a "standalone server". This is very common in almost every other modern language except PHP, for some reason. Googling "standalone php server" reveals several options:
QuickPHP
Nanoweb
Server2Go
A friend of mine asked me to help him edit and add content to his PHP website. It was originally created by a professional company which has now became his opponent.
I thought it would be easy to edit some texts and adding content based on an original template. I downloaded all the files from a server, but couldn't find any files that contained the text I wanted to edit.
How could I use the text search keyword in all those files: PHP & JS without opening them one by one to find it as it seems to having too many files related with one simple website?
What is the best way to check whether or not I am in need of the original files in order to finish this project?
This doesn't sound like a programming question.
Searching the files largely depends on what operating system you're using and what tools you have available. There are many tools such as grep/awk on Unix/Linux systems, and file search tools on Windows and Mac.
The text you want to edit may be stored in a database. Often, PHP sites are part of a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack with MySQL being the database layer. If this is the case, you would need to get the information from the database, too.
This definitely not a programming question as calvinf said .... and there are tools you can use to search keywords in all the files of your project...
Try Zend Studio and after making a project in it search for your keywords in All Files option...
Another possibility you would not be able to find files is because the text might be saved in the db and extracted at the runtime...
so in my opinion if later is the case you would have to have a look at the templates stored in your db...
But i won't mind to have a go at Zend if i were you, anyways.
I recently had a website developed by an external source. They gave me the source code as well as sql files.
When I extract the source code I see folders like Smarty, fckeditor and many php files. I want to start editing these as I find it to be the best way to learn. What tool should I use. I tried using trial version of PHPdesigner, but it just doesnt open my php files.
Is there any tool that can take all these files in the form of a project and simultaneously show me a visual display of any changes that I make.
I suppose it is very clear that I am new to this. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Just use simple text editor with some code highlight like Notepad++
It is free to use, very fast and it does what you need.
First of all try to know what are the different file types and which lanuguage are those targeted to. Once you know that you can then decide on the editor.
What i recommend is you try to find out if they used a framework for the website, something like CakePHP or CodeIgniter. The next step after you find out is to go the framework website and start reading the documentation.
If the site id developed in php most likely any type of WYSIWYG editing is going to inaccurate. This is because a number of different files need to be processed and combined by the php interpreter before they come together to make any given page or view. Thus the only way to really preview is to run it on a server. Since you say there are sql files he has laso used a DB to store something so most likely any changes you would need to make are going to be spread between both the php source files and the records in the db.
Aptana (Which is Eclipse based) is great at handling many different file type in one IDE. I would use Studio 2 w/ the plugins you need or if you feel cutting edge try Studio 3. It's cross platform so Linux/Windows or OSX.
I have developed a PHP-MySQL web application, which is a school-based project.
My client wants this application to be converted into a .exe file such that it can be installed on his desktop and use it.
How the PHP website can be converted to a .exe file and can it be run without the need of a database/server software?
Please advice.
The convenient solution is not to convert the website to .exe. I think it will be better if you have portable server/php/mysql and make the website work from a usb or CD with autorun.
NuSphere's PhpDock claims to do this: It serves as a deployment helper and comes with a bundled web server. However, I don't know about the database part, and it's not free.
PhpDock enables you to deploy any PHP web application as a Stand Alone Windows Desktop application w/o any changes in the code.
I don't know that particular product, but I have been using their IDE for years and am quite happy.
try using a site-specific browser. it will make a desktop app that is basically a portal running to your webapp. try this one:
https://mozillalabs.com/prism/
It allows alot of advanced features like system tray icons and such. I have used it many times!
Hope this helps, JL
Short answer: Not possible.
Long answer: It depends.
You could install a web- and database server on his machine (or create an installer that does it) and run the application locally on his machine.
or
You keep the application on a server and just provide a launcher that opens his browser and points it to the URL of the application.
As Artefacto mentioned, it might be a good idea to switch to SQLite instead of MySQL but depending on how your application is written it might require a lot of code and SQL Query changes.
No. You have at least to remove the dependency on MySQL (and use e.g. sqlite instead).
Then, you would either have to:
Convert the webpages to windows dialogs. This would completely change your application (e.g. what would originally be http "form submissions" would be someting completely different). At this point, it'd much easier to write a .NET application
Bundle a web server (e.g. Apache) with PHP installed.
Another try would be to turn your php project into PHP-GTK (http://gtk.php.net/).
Yet another one is to give HPHP a try (https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/) and try to turn the generated C code into something like a .DLL in .NET and use it for the logic while coding the UI in say, C#.
Just create a simple program in C or C++ that will just add icon in Start menu, desktop and Quickstart. If your client clicks the icon it will open the default OS browser and point it to URI of your application online.
That might fool your client :)
Or maybe it will be enough for him (he might be asking you to convert it to exe because he can't remember URI or something - ask him what is the reason).
You can use xampp open-source project to pack your PHP site into an executable file.
Use the following steps:-
1. Download Xampp source code.
Add your PHP file inside htdocs directory(Ref:- https://sourceforge.net/p/xampp/code/HEAD/tree/win32/xampp/htdocs/).
Now compile the XAMPP source code and distribute it.
For DATABASE creation and initial data loading in the database, you can code your site in such way that if database is not created, it redirects the page to install.php which do the database creation and data loading task using sql file provided(you need to add SQL file containing database structure and required data).
Don't forget to delete the SQL file post installation of database.
Not sure that's gonna be possible but have a look at:
WinBinder
WinBinder is a new open source
extension for PHP, the script
programming language. It allows PHP
programmers to easily build native
Windows applications.
(source: winbinder.org)
Solution 1:
There are several solutions to convert your web application into a desktop application, the one I prefer is the open source solution: PhpDesktop, but unfortunately it only supports SQLite.
Best Solution:
To convert your PHP application with MySQL I know a paid solution that does this: 'ExeOutPut For Desktop', it is the best for this job
Php desktop is the way to go, it's actually very simple to modify to the version of PHP you want to use and is open source too https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop