Running PHP from inside another application!

Hi, I've a case where I have to run a lots of php-scrips, in a short time, from inside a delphi-application. Every script connects to the same databas. Today I use CreateProcess to start php.exe and then I'm using pipes to get the php-result. I'm doing this for each php-script I want to run, and it's timeexpensive because every script has to establish a database-connection. I'm new in the PHP-world, but I'm sure that there is a better way to solve this case. I would prefer NOT to run php.exe all the time and of course I want to use the same databasconnectio, but I don't know how. It's not an option to put all the scripts into one big script. Thanks in advance Best Regards Mike