Posted by CptDondo on 06/18/32 11:57

Let me explain my situation:

I have a PHP app that generates web pages on the fly based on some data
it reads from XML files. The pages are served up via a http server and
displayed with a browser.

I've been asked to port this to an ANSI terminal-type display,
eliminating the web server and browser.

Initially I thought about using C to write the app, but XML handling in
C is a real PITA, plus I don't get to reuse my PHP code.

So, now I want to use PHP to generate those same pages except that I
don't want to send headers ever, and I need to loop waiting for
characters to arrive from the keypad and display pages based on those
chars...

This is on an embedded platform, and I really need to be able to use a
single PHP binary for both purposes (the displays are interchangeable at
the hardware level; it all depends on what the customer pays for.)

How do I get php to act as just another scripting language?

Thanks,

--Yan

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