PHP In Windows Applications?

[Anon]

Hi,

I build programs for the Windows Platform, the desktop not server version using Visual Studio.NET.

My question is the program is mostly done in C/C++. Is it possible to integrate the PHP Language into the program? My purpose for doing this would be to speed up the process of downloading files from a server.

Also what are some good PHP IDE's?

Thanks

[Anon]

I suppose if you had PHP installed on your machine, you could have your program call some PHP scripts. I can't imagine that would speed up anything though.

As far as transferring files, why use PHP socket or FTP connections when you can use C ? If you must D/L your files using HTTP, C would still be a better choice, more difficult to program, but faster than PHP I think.

I have never written a Visual C/C++ prog though, maybe they are terribly slow ?