In the notes it there is an example of running 1 line of PHP using:
php -r 'print_r(get_defined_constants());'
This might work on a UNIX machine but unfortunately on windows it produces the following error message:
Parse error: parse error in Command line code on line 1
Instead of using ' (single quotes) to encompass the PHP code use " (double quotes) instead. You can safely use ' within the code itself however such as:
php -r "echo 'hello';"