i actually wanna know this for sometime already,
how to integrate the PHP parser & output capability into let say my application.exe?

so eg. my application could run php script, with cookie, session support.
like a web application with PHP built-in?

PHP might not be the best scripting language to integrate in your application.

PHP is usually more suited for server-side applications.

Try Tcl as it's very easy to extend/embed. Take a look at http://wiki.tcl.tk/

Or LUA, very lightweight... Or Python, not as lightweight as LUA but pretty cool.

thanks ozzy & fodder.
actually the idea is to use my own mini weight server,
coz the solution is coded in PHP.

and i don't feel like wanna use the lighttpd nor apache.

the "wish to" is to let my coded solution aka the php web application, and supply the customer with my own web server that php capable, (you might wanna call it vendor lock down)

maybe the question should be how to let the web server support fast cgi or the php4ts.dll?

Ah, you're fixed to PHP and don't just want "a scripting language" - I sorta suspected this, but thought I'd throw in some alternatives after all.

I dunno which method of embedding PHP is "the best" - using a DLL (or static libraries) probably "feels best" if you consider performance, fastcgi might be easier to implement (I haven't looked at the php lib/dll so can't say how much work it'd be). I had a brief look at the fastcgi protocol once though, and it seemed pretty easy to implement