PHP4 + Informix/ODBC without WEB-Environment ?

Hello all, we use PHP3 with APACHE and Datebase-Connectivity in our intranet as an information-system for our ERP-System and Document-Management System. (PHP4 right now only for development) It works great and PHP is easy to use - thank you all for such a good tool and for all the time, that you spend in developing. Now my problem: I need to exchange Data from the ERP-System to the Doc-System (ERP runs on a HP-SQL-Database, Doc-System on Informix). Is it possible to compile and use php4 or zend as a standalone-tool like perl ? I need a utility that reads data from the ERP and inserts it into the Informix-DB. We have a complete script-environment in PHP to access data in both systems, but only with user-interaction via WEB. We want to use these tools to exchange data without any user-action (like a deamon-process that reacts on requests (port-listener or request-files). Or is perl (or C, phyton etc.) the only way to do such things. -> then we have to do all our basic work twice (php+perl) . Am I right, when I think, that the intention behind ZEND is that you can use the scripting engine standalone for doing things like that ? I hope that somebody could help me. Martin Gutjahr