PHP without a webserver

I've heard much about how PHP is far more than just a language for web programming, and I agree. I agree enough that I would like to actually try it. I'd like to use PHP scripting in a C/C++ program that doesn't need a webserver as an intermediary. I basically want to use PHP in a standalone/TCP-IP program rather than having to build a whole "IMF-esk" hairball myself. Are there any articles or documentation which focuses, or at least would give me useful information, on how such a task would be accomplished? I'm looking at the API documentation itself which will be helpful, but is there anything a little more "pointed" than that? I'd love to see PHP grow an arm of offline scripting. It would just be _perfect_ for compiling high-level developer-friendly scripts into a format usable for 3D real-time environment manipulation, for instance. -- Plutarck Should be working on something... ...but forgot what it was.