Anyone use PHP not on the web?

[onqate]

PHP also supports being used outside of a web environment (as a "normal" programming language, to construct desktop applications.) Yet I have never really heard of anyone using it for such, I know I wouldn't. Has anyone got any experience of this? I do like the idea of being able to swap an application really easily between being used as a desktop one and being a web app.

[maintainie]

I think it is ture that PHP supports being used outside of a web environment. But what the key is that how to make it in use.