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Bambalam PHP EXE Compiler/Embedder:
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. The php code is encoded using the Turck MMCache Encode library so it’s a perfect solution if you want to distribute your application while protecting […]

Script/website: michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/
Requirements: PHP
Installation time: Varies. Wordpress plugin installation takes less than a minute
Difficulty: Easy
License: Free, BSD-style open source
Download: PHP source in zip
API: N/A
Author Description: “The Markdown syntax allows you to write text naturally and format it without using HTML tags. More importantly: in Markdown format, your text stays enjoyable to read for a human being, […]

Looking to add chat to your server? Don’t want to mess with java and IRC? Want to try a PHP/MySQL solution? ARSC could be for you.

From the 4-step installation from INSTALL docs:
- Create a MySQL database
- Provide the hostname, username, password, and database
name to allow ARSC to connect to your MySQL Server
- […]

Though the name might sound like something for a popular gaming handheld, PSPad is actually a pretty decent freeware application for editing PHP scripts in Windows.