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What is it?
Bambalam PHP EXE Compiler/Embedder is a free command line tool to convert PHP applications to standalone Windows .exe applications. The exe files produced are totally standalone, no need for php dlls etc
more .... http://www.bambalam.se/bamcompile/

It's NOT really a compiler in the sense that it doesn't produce native machine code from PHP sources, but it works!

- How does it work?
The converter embeds encoded PHP source files as resources in a generic statically compiled PHP launcher executable.
more .... http://www.bambalam.se/bamcompile/

Does "compiled" PHP applications run faster?
Theoretically it should. Having libraries linked statically and encoding files (Turck MMCache encodes PHP sources as PHP bytecode, I think) should contribute to faster applications. But I haven't done any decent tests on it.

- What about PHP applications with more than one source file?
No problem, the converter is able to embed a whole project directory.

- What about accessing the embedded files from php?
You can access the embedded files just as you're used to. The PHP runtime used has been modified so that when you're accessing a file it first tries to access it the usual way (by looking in the path outside the .exe) and if the files aren't found there it looks for it in the embedded filelist.

- So the INCLUDE statement works just as it should?
Yes, as long as you include stuff using relative paths.

Download: http://www.bambalam.se/bamcompile/

More detailed info: http://www.bambalam.se/bamcompile/