在Visual C ++中创建一个简单的PHP解释器

When I look through the source code files I have downloaded from the PHP website, I get lost so easy. What I would like to do is obtain all the source code needed to create a Console application that takes your PHP code and executes it. I would also like to maybe be able to add C++ functions and calll them from PHP. I have done this quite simply with Lua on my Mac via Xcode, but I don't think it will be that easy using PHP on a different system using a different program.

You can write PHP extensions using C (or C++, I suppose) to expose libraries to PHP, but PHP isn't designed to be embedded in applications other than web servers.

Little 2019 update about @duskwuff comment.

PHP8 will have JIT compiler, so, no, PHP will no longer be used only for web.

As you can see on image, PHP8 compiler is faster than Java, C compiler etc.