FYI, BadBlue added a built-in PHP encoding capability to the enterprise version of their Windows web server. The personal edition of the server is a free download ( http://badblue.com/helpphps.htm ) and is a quick easy way to get PHP running.
The new encoder is described here: http://badblue.com/helpphpe.htm .
Dave
A nice thought.
Pity it requeres badblue-webserver.