Re: can I run php on my wintel as a non-web script language

Hi Alan, I can confirm that you can use php on win as standalone script (I mean: php.exe -q my_script ) ... we currently use php to do job like ftp tranfer, batch routine as db population, file renaming and more ... Best regards max > Hello, > I think PHP is awesome. A thought just occurred to me. PHP > has tons of text > and file manipulation functions. Can I run the PHP "interpreter" on its own > on my Win 98 machine? For example, I downloaded the php > distribution for > windows and there is the cgi binary. Can I do > php myscript.php > and assume the output is to the screen? That would be cool. I > wonder how > functions like mail() would work, however. Would the windows > PHP use winsock > to do this function? > If this works, this has great promise, at least for me. Its like batch > file/scripting for windows on steroids, without me having to > learn VB Script > or some other inferior language. > Alan