User Input to PHP file only

Hi, I am a very beginner and am trying to figure out if it is possible to create a php file alone (not in conjunction with a html form) that allows the user to input the value of several variables? Here is what I am trying to do, I don't have any web server software installed on my home computer and my home computer is not always connected to the internet so I am looking for a way to simulate a html form passing variables onto a php file. I was thinking that I could just use something like Qbasic language where you say Input "What is your name";name$ in a php script and then the php file could spit out Hello name$. I figured this would be a good way to simulate what I really want to do which would be something like have an html form that ask for name and then the user types in a name and the php file processes it and says hello <name> but like I said I don't have any web server software installed on my home win95 computer so I can't just make the html form and php file and locally test it. So will my plan of creating just a modified php file for local testing work or is there a better idea? Can I create a php file alone that ask the user for input and then can take that input and process it? Thanks, if you want to reply personally, remove all numbers from my address. BTW: Are my anti spam measures necessary on this server? -- Andrew V. Romero Romer1999o@pharmacy.arizona.edu Remove the #'s from my address to reply. http://www.u.arizona.edu/~avr/ ICQ #54080914