JohnMPHP Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Hello I am a desktop / database programmer. I wish to write a program to read data from a database and populate a combobox in an html page. I have read that PHP can do this. Is this correct? I would prefer not to have to use a web server since this is a local app and there will be one page and it will be static excpet for a few selection criteria (like a combobox). All the examples I see are for web pages. If this can be done can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks JM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnMPHP Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 Does anyone know how to install PHP? I download a couple of installations and no exe will run. They are looking for a microsoft library MSVCR110.dll. I tried a test but it does not work. <!DOCTYPE html><html><body><?phpecho "My first PHP script!";?></body></html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroNiX Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Look into WAMP, which will install Apache/Mysql/PHP on a windows system and set everything up to run together. You will need a webserver running locally to process the php scripts. It doesn't have to be a remote server. You DONT need a webserver if you are executing the php scripts via the command line, but most likely you'd want to be using a browser to access the page since you want to generate <select> form elements (combobox as you referred to it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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