PHP DESKTOP APLLICATION MAKER is a GUI tool for converting your PHP web apps and PHP CLI tools to desktop applications without any effort. Our application used PHP DESKTOP Framework But here you can use MySQL and many more features, so If you have a big PHP codebase and want to reuse it on the desktop then it makes sense to use PHP DESKTOP APLLICATION MAKER. If you want to convert your PHP and MYSQL based web application to a Desktop Application then you just select your PHP source folder from new project window or also you can copy your all files from your web server public_html folder to your www folder and select www folder as source folder from new project windows, open PHP MYADMIN from application , create your data base and Import your SQL file thats all. now just click on open project button and select your saved project file for run your application. If you want to compile your project LIke Visual Basic Or C++ application then just use this add-ons PD_COMPILER for compile your projects.

PHP DESKTOP APLLICATION MAKER embeds a web browser, a multi-threaded web server, a portable MySQL server (which is MariaDB), and a PHP interpreter, all embedded into a single application that you can easily distribute to end-users according to your needs. The web server embedded is a custom edition of Mongoose (the MIT-licensed version), a web server used by NASA on International Space Station. Supported browsers are Google Chrome. The package with Chrome embedded has no external dependencies, everything is included in the PHP DESKTOP APLLICATION MAKER binaries and works out of the box on a user's computer.

What is Portable Mysql server ? The MySQL server is considered as portable because it doesn't require to be installed as a Windows service in order to work, that is similar to what you are use in "XAMPP / WAMP" Application.