[web-php] master: Add instructions for Windows zip downloads (#1869)

Author: Shivam Mathur (shivammathur) Committer: GitHub (web-flow) Pusher: shivammathur Date: 2026-03-20T17:57:54+05:30 Commit: https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/078fff8796d1c51134360e15b5b365970fe12287 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">' . $mt . ' UTC</span>' : '')); } +echo <<<'HTML' +<strong>Architecture</strong> +<p>It is recommended to use x64 builds of PHP as almost all Windows installations currently support x64.</p> +<strong>Thread Safety</strong> +<p>NTS builds are for single-threaded use cases, typically PHP running via FastCGI or on the CLI. TS builds support multithreaded SAPIs and are intended for PHP loaded as a web server module. So, if you want to use PHP as FastCGI with IIS, use the Non-Thread Safe (NTS) builds of PHP, or if you want to use the Apache HTTP Server, use the Thread Safe (TS) builds of PHP.</p> +<strong>Visual Studio Versions</strong> +<p>The builds below are built using Visual Studio 2019 (VS16) or Visual Studio 2022 (VS17) compiler. They require the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2022 <a href="https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe">x64</a> or <a href="https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe">x86</a> installed.</p> +HTML; + echo '<h3>PHP ' . htmlspecialchars($version) . ' (' . $fullVersion . ')</h3>'; if (!empty($verBlock['source']['path'])) {