Updated details of using PHP binaries

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## Multiple Platforms
Although it may need a little additonal work you can make a PHP desktop application for Windows, Linux, and OSX. Currently the binaries for PHP are version 5.6 32-bit thread safe binaries for Windows. But you can switch it out with a different version/platform found at [PHP.net](http://php.net/) or elsewhere. Linux and OSX versions have a slightly different file structure and so far a packaging scheme has not been decided so you will need to come up with your own. Have suggestions? Do feel free to share.
(I have not tested it on any ARM based builds of NW.js but I don't see why it couldn't work.)
Although it may need a little additonal work you can make a PHP desktop application for Windows, Linux, and OSX. You can use the PHP binaries found at [PHP.net](http://php.net/) or elsewhere. Windows binaries will work once you drop them in the PHP directory. Linux and OSX versions have a slightly different file structure which make packaging a bit harder. But users have been able to use binaries included with [AMPPS](http://www.ampps.com/) and [PHP Nightrain](http://www.naetech.com/php-nightrain) with little to no extra modification.
## Optional PHP Packaging