This document discusses using PHP as middleware in embedded systems. It begins by describing challenges in embedded systems like hardware limitations and difficulties with deployment and updates. It then proposes using PHP and various PHP extensions to address these challenges by acting as software glue between applications and hardware. The document outlines various tasks like porting libraries to the embedded platform, developing and debugging PHP applications for embedded systems, and performance tuning. It provides examples of using PHP for tasks like interfacing with REST APIs, handling different data formats, encryption, and data storage. Overall it argues that PHP can serve as an effective middleware solution in embedded systems development.