I am trying to create an application that has a sender and receiver. The entire application is only meant to be used on a LAN and can also possibly be done almost completely through the browser.
The “sender” part is an application of some sort that will need to run a local server on the person’s computer and allow for php,html,css,js, and mysql to run.
On the “receiver” end, it is simply a person’s browser accessing a webpage being served up from the “sender” application.
I have been looking into nodejs as a means of accomplishing the server part of this…but I am not sure if I can ship it as an exe with mysql and php installed and allow it to be execd from php. I am aware of being able to install these extensions using npm, but I want to ship a whole exe to the end user and not have them install node on their own.
Is this possible? If so, how? Thanks in advance.
You may want to look into XAMPP. It appears to be a portable(-ish) installation of Apache, PHP, MySQL, and a few other things (e.g., Perl). You way want to see if you can strip out the irrelevant parts and put your application code into it somehow.