Is this possible to run a php program like a standalone application?
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1473241/making-a-distribultable-standalone-program-in-php">Making a distribultable standalone program in PHP</a>  </p>
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<p>I don't know how to explain my idea...let me explain it by example....
Typically, I can have an application on the client side, when I launch it, it runs, until I close the application. Many desktop application works like that, right? But an application on php server is different, it only start processing when the user make request.... ....</p>

<p>So, my question is, can I make the php program become something like the desktop application, when I start it, it launch, until I kill the program, (for example, when I launch the application, it keeps pinging the google.com, until I stop the application.), doesn't need the user make request to "active" the program... Thank you.</p>
