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 your source code. The converter is also suitable for producing .exe files for windowed PHP applications (created using for example the WinBinder library, or with PHP-GTK

Usage:
bamcompile [-options] infile.php [outfile.exe]
bamcompile [-options] project_directory mainfile.php [outfile.exe]

Options:
-w Hide console window for windowed applications
-c Compress output exe (using UPX - must be available)
-d Do not encode PHP files

Based on John Gruber’s Markdown (Perl), PHP Markdown can be used a Wordpress plugin by copying over the markdown.php file from the zip file to the wp-content/plugins directory. There is an official demo called Dingus here. The screenshot above shows my example of using PHP Markdown syntax through Dingus.

The function Markdown($text) inside markdown.php is passed a text string and returns the marked down version, so incorporating this into another program where you want to markdownify the text is pretty straightforward, although the file is a bit on the bulky side at 55k. Would be more convenient if a version without Wordpress and bBlog code inside it were provided in the zip package. The most recent version as of this writing was September 5, 2005.

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
- Copy the ARSC files onto the webserver
- Open the install script url in the webbrowser

We have been looking to do some kind of chat for Webmaster Cookbook, so I just conducted a quick installation there to see how long the base installation actually took.

Started 8:02am. End: 8:15am. 13 minutes which included creating the database and user/pass in PHPMyAdmin and FTPing the files.

Notes
- don’t forget to delete the install subdirectory
- customize the outside and inside pages using the layout option in the admin area