Question

I created a PHP application with Zend Framework that I would only ever like to run locally with an XAMPP installation.

I’ve never coded in anything but PHP, so I would like to know what technologies are involved in creating this functionality:

1. User double-clicks a desktop icon.
2. XAMPP starts
3. Apache and MySQL start.
4. Browser opens pointed to “localhost”

What technologies do I need to learn in order to accomplish this?

Answer 1

Unless you want to do this with a custom written application as @rlemon recommends, you should be able to do it with a batch file. It’s the Windows version of script files.

Resources/hints to give you some ideas:

• Microsoft Windows XP – Batch files general overview on MSDN
• How to start and stop XAMPP server from the XAMPP docs
• The start command (Running start http://localhost in the batch file should work to open the web browser)