Does PHP have a virtual machine like Java?
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Yes.
Independently from the platform PHP is running on, the scripts are compiled into the same bytecode and run by the Zend Engine.
The difference from Java is that this compiled code is usually not stored into separate files and the scripts are re-compiled on each execution (however, see opcode caches).