Sirel Example 03

The purpose of this example is to demonstrate, how the Sirel PHP library facilitates the use of PHP in a role of an entry point to a non-interactive text/file processing console application.

The motivation for using PHP as an entry point is to allow the console application to be used on a commonly affordable web-hosting service that supports PHP and does not allow its clients to run their own web servers.

The benefit of using PHP as an entry point in stead of writing the console application as a CGI program is that the PHP interpreter handles all of the CGI/web-server-interface related parts and allows the development of the console application to be focused on application specific text/file processing.