How to run PHP scripts without a serve

[neilsmachine]

I saw somewhere that PHP scripts could be complied to run by themselves. I have no clue how to do this but it would be great for doing offline tasks.

Does anyone know how to do this?

[brandonschnell]

you'll need to compile php as a stand alone application (or cgi) or look at www.zend.com in particular at the Zend Encoder™.

[jblallement]

Hi,

depending on the platform you are runnning on ( unix/win ) you can use php as a standalone program.
On unix it's named php and php.exe under windows.

Then, there are many ways to run php scripts.

Unix:
Put the line
#!/path_to_php/php
at the beginning of every php script

Windows:
Associate .php extension with php.exe.