Not really like node, no. The node http module is part of the standard library and you can use it to build a custom web server. The php web server is built in

Not really like node, no. The node http module is part of the standard library and you can use it to build a custom web server. The php web server is built into the php binary, and you can use it to serve up some portion of your filesystem as a PHP app. So it's more like `python -m SimpleHTTPServer` than the node http module.