Can php be installed on hp iPaq ... for learning purposes?

[Tariq]

Hi all,
Needless to say that I am new to the forum. Am thinking about buying a
pocket pc, hp iPaq 6315 to be exact. Question is can I install php and a
database like mySQL on it, to practice and learn?

TIA
Sincerely,
TAriq



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[Tariq]

What I meant was, can I install a server to execute the scripts? Sorry for
not being clear!

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>
> Hi all,
> Needless to say that I am new to the forum. Am thinking about buying a
> pocket pc, hp iPaq 6315 to be exact. Question is can I install php and a
> database like mySQL on it, to practice and learn?
>
> TIA
> Sincerely,
> TAriq
>
>
>
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[Janwillem Borleffs]

Tariq wrote:

> What I meant was, can I install a server to execute the scripts?
> Sorry for not being clear!
>

When it's running on Linux, it should not be a problem. See the links
mentioned in the following thread:

[url]http://tinyurl.com/3nbs3[/url]


JW

[Colin McKinnon]

Tariq spilled the following:

> What I meant was, can I install a server to execute the scripts? Sorry for
> not being clear!
>

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>> Needless to say that I am new to the forum. Am thinking about buying a
>> pocket pc, hp iPaq 6315 to be exact. Question is can I install php and a
>> database like mySQL on it, to practice and learn?
>>

It's certainly possible if you use Linux as the OS - see
[url]http://www.handhelds.org/geeklog/index.php[/url] for how to install. Once you
have Linux running on it, it should be fairly easy to compile PHP for the
target on a desktop and just copy over the files.

MySQL is probably overkill for a PDA - currently PHP ships with SQLite an
embedded DBMS (more like a file I/O lib with an SQL interface than a real
DBMS).

Similar for Apache - great for high volume servers - bloatware on a PDA -
try monkey - [url]http://monkeyd.sourceforge.net/[/url] (49k executable).

I've just started playing around with PHP5, but a simple build passed
through strip comes out at 1Mb - should fit!

Alternatively (and particularly if you want to keep the Microsoft OS, and
can lick the problem of compiling PHP for your target) you might want to
check out Nanoweb ([url]http://nanoweb.si.kz/[/url]) which is a webserver written in
PHP.

HTH

C.