lovely client oversite on my part just cost me some face

oops

[Sarah Atkinson]

I'm building a site for a client and finished adding all the information he gave me to it. I then burned a copy to a disk and sent it to him for review. HE then went to my boss saying how I didn't add everything we talked aboult and how horible the site was. And how I haven't acomplished anything. I just went over the notes he sent me today with some confusion until the full situation dawned on me. I sent him a php site on a disk and I don't think he has his computer set up to parse the php script. Since the script is was delivers the content to the page none of the content is showing up for him.

[vincevincevince]

That sounds quite unfortunate.

In future - look into Knoppix (linux which boots from CD). Download it and with a bit of linux know-how you can both add your files to the image and make it so that a) apache starts automatically, and b) your site auto-opens.

I am not sure if the latest version has firefox or not - if it does then that's great - if not you might want to add it to avoid seeing your site in Konqueror (urgh!)...

[httpwebwitch]

What a bummer! I hope your boss is understanding.

A suggestion for next time:

host the PHP site on your localhost

then use a website copier - I like WinHTTrack [httrack.com] - to download the site as flat HTML files, which can be burned to a CDR and viewed in a browser.

You can even put an autorun script on the disc so it opens a browser to the home page when it's inserted.

The web copier method will fail if the site is highly dynamic... but works great if the site can be repesented as static documents.