Download a complete CakePHP webapplication as a full standalone Windows (XP, 7 or 8) desktop application. Configure the packaged application to your needs before creating it using the simple webinterface. The aim is to supply a pure PHP application packager, therefore no shellscripts or exec() functions are used.
Some key features:
This plugin is in development. Some things like the MySQL to Sqlite database conversion may need work.
The awesome phpdesktop project is used to provide the standalone Windows enviroment. The Chrome-driven variant is used for this plugin.
The packaged application is running a Mongoose webserver, PHP 5.4 and uses Chromium (Chromium Emebeded Framework) to view the app. Read more about this on the phpdesktop website. Currently using the 5.4 version to keep Windows XP compatible.
Check out a copy of the Cakedesktop CakePHP plugin from the repository using Git :
git clone http://github.com/stefanvangastel/CakePHP-Cakedesktop.git
or download the archive from Github:
https://github.com/stefanvangastel/CakePHP-Cakedesktop/archive/master.zip
You must place the Cakedesktop CakePHP plugin within your CakePHP 2.x app/Plugin directory.
or load it with composer:
"stefanvangastel/cakedesktop": "dev-master"
Make sure app/Plugin/Cakedesktop/tmp is writable by the webserver user.
Load the plugin in app/Config/bootstrap.php:
CakePlugin::load('Cakedesktop');
Open http(s)://yourapp.com/cakedesktop/ and create your application!
The application is served as a zip file containing all the stuff you need to run your application. Extract the contents and run the .exe file provided.