MAXI + Cross compiled PHP

[LearningFast]

Morning guys,

First I want to say thanks for the board it working out well. I have a IMX233 Maxi and have install the Open Embedded building using the instructions from here https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/iMX233/_resources/OPEN-EMBEDDED-README.TXT I now wanted to get PHP running on the board so thought I would try and follow the information here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3817685/cross-compiled-thttpd-server-with-php-runs-fine-but-no-php but unfortunately after transferring a compiled version onto the board and running php -v I get the error 

/usr/sbin/php: line 2: ELF

: not found
/usr/sbin/php: line 5: syntax error: unexpected ")"


I am presuming the cross compile isn't going well and so am asking for some help. Does anyone have PHP cross compiled working on the OPEN Embedded image? I don't want to install ARCH as the image is so much larger.