Author: Shivam Mathur (shivammathur)
Committer: GitHub (web-flow)
Pusher: shivammathur
Date: 2026-03-20T17:57:54+05:30
Commit: Add instructions for Windows zip downloads (#1869) · php/web-php@078fff8 · GitHub
Raw diff: https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/078fff8796d1c51134360e15b5b365970fe12287.diff
Add instructions for Windows zip downloads (#1869)
Changed paths:
M include/download-instructions/windows-downloads.php
Diff:
diff --git a/include/download-instructions/windows-downloads.php b/include/download-instructions/windows-downloads.php
index 89e7525bcc..77e6445740 100644
--- a/include/download-instructions/windows-downloads.php
+++ b/include/download-instructions/windows-downloads.php
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ function ws_build_label(string $k, array $entry): string {
return trim(($tool ? $tool . ' ' : '') . ($arch ? $arch . ' ' : '') . $ts . ($mt ? ' <span class="time">' . $mt . ' UTC</span>' : ''));
}
+echo <<<'HTML'
+<strong>Architecture</strong>
+<p>It is recommended to use x64 builds of PHP as almost all Windows installations currently support x64.</p>
+<strong>Thread Safety</strong>
+<p>NTS builds are for single-threaded use cases, typically PHP running via FastCGI or on the CLI. TS builds support multithreaded SAPIs and are intended for PHP loaded as a web server module. So, if you want to use PHP as FastCGI with IIS, use the Non-Thread Safe (NTS) builds of PHP, or if you want to use the Apache HTTP Server, use the Thread Safe (TS) builds of PHP.</p>
+<strong>Visual Studio Versions</strong>
+<p>The builds below are built using Visual Studio 2019 (VS16) or Visual Studio 2022 (VS17) compiler. They require the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2022 <a href="Search - Microsoft Bing; or <a href="Search - Microsoft Bing; installed.</p>
+HTML;
+
echo '<h3>PHP ' . htmlspecialchars($version) . ' (' . $fullVersion . ')</h3>';
if (!empty($verBlock['source']['path'])) {