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Hi,
I have heard two things about PHP :
1- It is dynamically compiled (PHP5).
2- It can be used as standalone binaries.
I need more information about this two topics for my presentation on the day after tomorrow. I googled but found nothing.
Can anyone help me with this two topics? It is really urgent.
PHP is interpreted, not compiled. That means that every page is run through the PHP engine on every call and interpreted (or processed) on every call. As for be used as stand alone binaries... what do you mean by that?
In the book from Wiley called PHP5 and MySQL Bible, I read that PHP is now dynamically compiled and can be run as standalone binaries.
I will send the exact page numbers soon.
There are PHP compilers around ... but 99.9% of the time PHP is run as an interpreted language from within a webserver. That is how it is designed to be run. I do not believe there is an official support by the PHP Group for compiled PHP program binaries.