PHP For Windows
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 For Windows
PECL extensions for Windows is being worked on. Windows DLL can be downloaded right from thePECL website.
The PECL extension release and snapshot build directories are browsable directly.
Which version do I choose?
IIS
If you are using PHP as FastCGI with IIS you should use the Non-Thread Safe (NTS) versions of PHP.
Apache
Please use the Apache builds provided by Apache Lounge.They also provide VC11 builds of Apache for x86 and x64.We use their binaries to build the Apache SAPIs.
If you are using PHP with Apache 1 or Apache2 from apache.org (not recommended) you need to use the older VC6 versions of PHPcompiled with the legacy Visual Studio 6 compiler. DoNOT use VC9+ versions of PHP with the apache.org binaries.
With Apache you have to use the Thread Safe (TS) versions of PHP.
VC9 and VC11
More recent versions of PHP are built with VC9 or VC11 (Visual Studio 2008 and 2012 compiler respectively) and include improvements in performance and stability.
The VC9 builds require you to have the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2008 SP1x86 or x64 installed.
The VC11 builds require to have the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012x86 or x64 installed.
TS and NTS
TS refers to multithread capable builds. NTS refers to single thread only builds. Use case forTS binaries involves interaction witha multithreaded SAPI and PHP loaded as a module into a web server. ForNTS binaries the widespread use case is interaction with a web server throughthe FastCGI protocol, utilizing no multithreading (but also for example CLI).
What is PGO?
Profile Guided Optimization is an optimizationfeature 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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x86_64 Builds
The x64 builds of PHP for Windows should be considered experimental, and do not yet provide 64-bit integer or large file support.Please seethis post for work ongoing to improve these builds.
PHP 7 provides full 64-bit support. The x64 builds of PHP 7 support native 64-bit integers, LFS, memory_limit and much more.
Archives
Past releases are available from our archives, older versions not found there can be found at the Museum.