Doc #63014 [Com]: Explanation needed on "thread-safe" vs "non-thread-safe" binaries

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63014&edit=1 ID: 63014 Comment by: stefan dot pochmann at gmail dot com Reported by: l762421 at rtrtr dot com Summary: Explanation needed on "thread-safe" vs "non-thread-safe" binaries Status: Open Type: Documentation Problem Package: Website problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This is still unclear, *and* there seems to be conflicting advice: - The IIS section on the left of http://windows.php.net/download/ says: "If you are using PHP with IIS you should use the Non-Thread Safe (NTS) versions of PHP." - The bottom of http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.obtaining.php says: "For multithreaded webservers, such as IIS5 and IIS6, you should use the threaded version of PHP." So which one is it in that case? Non-Thread or threaded?? Also, how do the three words "Non Thread Safe" bind together? Is it "Non-Thread Safe" or "Non Thread-Safe"? The IIS section on the left of http://windows.php.net/download/ mentions "Non-Thread Safe", but that differs from the rest of the page, and if that's the correct interpretation and thus all versions are "Safe", then that word is superfluous and I wonder why it's there at all. I'm thoroughly confused. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-09-05 12:33:25] l762421 at rtrtr dot com Description: ------------ The Windows PHP site explains whether to use the VC6 or VC9 binaries, but gives no explanation whatsoever as to when to use the "thread-safe" or "non-thread-safe" builds. http://windows.php.net/download/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63014&edit=1