This site is dedicated to supporting PHP on Microsoft Windows. It also supports ports of PHP extensions or features as well as providing special builds for the various Windows architectures.
If you like to build your own PHP binaries, instructions can be found on the Wiki.
PECL extensions for Windows is being worked on.
Windows DLL can be downloaded right from the PECL website.
The PECL extension
release and
snapshot build directories are browsable
directly.
If you are using PHP as FastCGI with IIS you should use the Non-Thread Safe (NTS) versions of PHP.
Please use the Apache builds provided by Apache Lounge. They provide VC14, VC15 and VS16 builds of Apache for x86 and x64. We use their binaries to build the Apache SAPIs.
With Apache you have to use the Thread Safe (TS) versions of PHP.
More recent versions of PHP are built with VC14, VC15 or VS16 (Visual Studio 2015, 2017 or 2019 compiler respectively) and include improvements in performance and stability.
- The VC14, VC15 and VS16 builds require to have the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2019 x64 or x86 installed
TS refers to multithread capable builds. NTS refers to single thread only builds. Use case for TS binaries involves interaction with a multithreaded SAPI and PHP loaded as a module into a web server. For NTS binaries the widespread use case is interaction with a web server through the FastCGI protocol, utilizing no multithreading (but also for example CLI).
Profile Guided Optimization is an optimization feature available in Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler that allows you to optimize an output file based on profiling data collected during test runs of the application or module.
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PHP 7 provides full 64-bit support. The x64 builds of PHP 7 support native 64-bit integers, LFS, 64-bit memory_limit and much more.
PHP 7.1+ supports long and UTF-8 paths. See the manual for details.
QA binaries are NOT intended for production use; please use the binaries at PHP Windows downloads.
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