diff --git a/build-static.sh b/build-static.sh
index 685984d63d..d8bee0114a 100755
--- a/build-static.sh
+++ b/build-static.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ os="$(uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')"
 # - MIMALLOC: Use mimalloc as the allocator if set to 1 (default: none)
 # - XCADDY_ARGS: Additional arguments to pass to xcaddy
 # - RELEASE: [maintainer only] Create a GitHub release if set to 1 (default: none)
+# - INCLUDE_CLI: embeds the PHP CLI in FrankenPHP and enables a command for extracting it (default: none)
 
 # - SPC_REL_TYPE: Release type to download (accept "source" and "binary", default: "source")
 # - SPC_OPT_BUILD_ARGS: Additional arguments to pass to spc build
@@ -55,6 +56,10 @@ fi
 if [ -n "${DEBUG_SYMBOLS}" ]; then
 	SPC_OPT_BUILD_ARGS="${SPC_OPT_BUILD_ARGS} --no-strip"
 fi
+# build php-cli for embedding it
+if [ -n "${INCLUDE_CLI}" ]; then
+	SPC_OPT_BUILD_ARGS="${SPC_OPT_BUILD_ARGS} --build-cli"
+fi
 # php version to build
 if [ -z "${PHP_VERSION}" ]; then
 	get_latest_php_version() {
@@ -215,6 +220,10 @@ else
 	echo -n "${cache_key}" >../cache_key
 fi
 
+if [ "${INCLUDE_CLI}" ]; then
+	cp "${PWD}/buildroot/bin/php" ../../caddy/frankenphp/php-cli
+fi
+
 if ! type "go" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
 	echo "The \"go\" command must be installed."
 	exit 1
@@ -315,12 +324,17 @@ if [ "${SPC_LIBC}" = "musl" ]; then
 	muslStackSizeFix="-Wl,-z,stack-size=0x80000"
 fi
 
+INCLUDE_CLI_TAG=""
+if [ "${INCLUDE_CLI}" ]; then
+	INCLUDE_CLI_TAG="include_php_cli,"
+fi
+
 go env
 cd caddy/
 if [ -z "${SPC_LIBC}" ] || [ "${SPC_LIBC}" = "musl" ]; then
-	xcaddyGoBuildFlags="-buildmode=pie -tags cgo,netgo,osusergo,static_build,nobadger,nomysql,nopgx -ldflags \"-linkmode=external -extldflags '-static-pie ${muslStackSizeFix}' ${extraLdflags} -X 'github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2.CustomVersion=FrankenPHP ${FRANKENPHP_VERSION} PHP ${LIBPHP_VERSION} Caddy'\""
+	xcaddyGoBuildFlags="-buildmode=pie -tags cgo,${INCLUDE_CLI_TAG}netgo,osusergo,static_build,nobadger,nomysql,nopgx -ldflags \"-linkmode=external -extldflags '-static-pie ${muslStackSizeFix}' ${extraLdflags} -X 'github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2.CustomVersion=FrankenPHP ${FRANKENPHP_VERSION} PHP ${LIBPHP_VERSION} Caddy'\""
 elif [ "${SPC_LIBC}" = "glibc" ]; then
-	xcaddyGoBuildFlags="-buildmode=pie -tags cgo,netgo,osusergo,nobadger,nomysql,nopgx -ldflags \"-linkmode=external -extldflags '-pie' ${extraLdflags} -X 'github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2.CustomVersion=FrankenPHP ${FRANKENPHP_VERSION} PHP ${LIBPHP_VERSION} Caddy'\""
+	xcaddyGoBuildFlags="-buildmode=pie -tags cgo,${INCLUDE_CLI_TAG}netgo,osusergo,nobadger,nomysql,nopgx -ldflags \"-linkmode=external -extldflags '-pie' ${extraLdflags} -X 'github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2.CustomVersion=FrankenPHP ${FRANKENPHP_VERSION} PHP ${LIBPHP_VERSION} Caddy'\""
 fi
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2086
diff --git a/caddy/frankenphp/main.go b/caddy/frankenphp/main.go
index 5b5fc0d7c9..825b1f1bb2 100644
--- a/caddy/frankenphp/main.go
+++ b/caddy/frankenphp/main.go
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	caddycmd "github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/cmd"
-
 	// plug in Caddy modules here.
 	_ "github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/modules/standard"
 	_ "github.com/dunglas/caddy-cbrotli"
diff --git a/caddy/php-installer.go b/caddy/php-installer.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c97cb8d16b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/caddy/php-installer.go
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+//go:build include_php_cli
+
+package caddy
+
+import (
+	_ "embed"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	caddycmd "github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/cmd"
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"os"
+)
+
+//go:embed frankenphp/php-cli
+var phpcli []byte
+
+func init() {
+	caddycmd.RegisterCommand(caddycmd.Command{
+		Name:  "install-php",
+		Usage: "location",
+		Short: "Installs the embedded PHP binary to the desired location",
+		Long: `
+FrankenPHP was embedded with a php-cli binary. You can extract this to the desired location.`,
+		CobraFunc: func(cmd *cobra.Command) {
+			cmd.DisableFlagParsing = true
+			cmd.RunE = caddycmd.WrapCommandFuncForCobra(extractPHP)
+		},
+	})
+}
+
+func extractPHP(fs caddycmd.Flags) (int, error) {
+	args := os.Args[2:]
+	if len(args) < 1 {
+		return 1, errors.New("the location is required")
+	}
+
+	destPath := args[0]
+	
+	err := os.WriteFile(destPath, phpcli, 0777)
+	if err != nil {
+		err = fmt.Errorf("Failed to write php-cli to %s: %v\n", destPath, err)
+		if err != nil {
+			panic(err)
+		}
+		os.Exit(1)
+		return 1, nil
+	}
+
+	os.Exit(0)
+
+	return 0, nil
+}
diff --git a/docs/static.md b/docs/static.md
index dd11f36cb0..d88488aff8 100644
--- a/docs/static.md
+++ b/docs/static.md
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ script to customize the static build:
 - `DEBUG_SYMBOLS`: when set, debug-symbols will not be stripped and will be added to the binary
 - `MIMALLOC`: (experimental, Linux-only) replace musl's mallocng by [mimalloc](https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc) for improved performance. We only recommend using this for musl targeting builds, for glibc prefer disabling this option and using [`LD_PRELOAD`](https://microsoft.github.io/mimalloc/overrides.html) when you run your binary instead.
 - `RELEASE`: (maintainers only) when set, the resulting binary will be uploaded on GitHub
+- `INCLUDE_CLI`: embeds the PHP CLI in the resulting binary which can be installed with the `install-php` command
 
 ## Extensions
 
diff --git a/static-builder-gnu.Dockerfile b/static-builder-gnu.Dockerfile
index 7d6a7391cb..14520beb5d 100644
--- a/static-builder-gnu.Dockerfile
+++ b/static-builder-gnu.Dockerfile
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ ARG BUILD_PACKAGES=''
 ARG PHP_VERSION=''
 ENV PHP_VERSION=${PHP_VERSION}
 
+ARG INCLUDE_CLI=''
+ENV INCLUDE_CLI=${INCLUDE_CLI}
+
 # args passed to static-php-cli
 ARG PHP_EXTENSIONS=''
 ARG PHP_EXTENSION_LIBS=''
diff --git a/static-builder-musl.Dockerfile b/static-builder-musl.Dockerfile
index 2bea7d8fe9..b17f9d92ba 100644
--- a/static-builder-musl.Dockerfile
+++ b/static-builder-musl.Dockerfile
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ ARG EMBED=''
 ARG DEBUG_SYMBOLS=''
 ARG MIMALLOC=''
 ARG NO_COMPRESS=''
+ARG INCLUDE_CLI=''
+ENV INCLUDE_CLI=${INCLUDE_CLI}
 
 ENV GOTOOLCHAIN=local