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<listitem><simpara>Websites and web applications (server-side scripting)</simpara></listitem>

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server (e.g. Apache on Linux and macOS; IIS on Windows).

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server. For many servers PHP has a direct module

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interface (also called SAPI). These servers include

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PHP to process all PHP file requests on the server.

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command line PHP applications</link>. In this case,

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