command-line interpreter for the php5 scripting language This package provides the /usr/bin/php5 command interpreter, useful for testing PHP scripts from a shell, or perhaps even performing general shell scripting tasks, if you're frightened of Perl and Python. The following extensions are built in: bcmath bz2 calendar ctype date dom exif filter ftp gettext hash iconv json libxml mbstring mime_magic ncurses openssl pcntl pcre posix Reflection session shmop SimpleXML soap sockets SPL standard sysvmsg sysvsem sysvshm tokenizer wddx xml xmlreader xmlwriter zip zlib. PHP5 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. This version of PHP5 was built with the Suhosin patch.