Does PHP get translated into a higher level form?

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Every time a PHP script is accessed is it translated from it’s original text format or is it parsed into something more meaningful. I would Google it but I’ve realised that if everyone searched for an answer then discussion forum owners would have nothing to do :wink:

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Hi cookerton and welcome to SitePoint,

See the following link which has the answer. http://stackoverflow.com/a/1514682