how run php5 files in linux terminal, showing output on terminal,without installing apache

Question

is there any connection between perl and php

Answer 1

You can do that by typing following command in terminal:
php < filename.php
If you want to store the output of this command into a file you can do that by:
php < filename.php > output.html
now you can run this output file into a browser

Answer 2

What a distribution of linux?