run php scripts from the commandline?

Hi all, I want to pre-generate a number of files (which don't change, so there is no need to have them auto-generated). However, for generation I need to use some of the PHP functions defined ifoe by the online pages. Is it possible to use PHP (called from the commandline) to generate these files, requiring the necessary library files? Another option would be to use perl's Text::Template, which allows inlining perl-code similar to PHP for webpages, but why duplicate all the code in perl when the PHP versions are already existent? thanks in advance Mathias