5.3.x
Changes made to Windows support
Changes made to Windows support
Changes made to Windows support
Changes to the Windows releases:
- The minimum Windows
version is now Windows XP SP3; Windows 98, ME, 2000 and NT4 are no
longer supported. - Windows binaries now
target i586 and later. i386 and i486 are not supported. - There is now
experimental support for x64 versions of PHP on
Windows. - There is now compiler
support for Visual C++ 9 (VC9), using Visual Studio 2008. Snapshots
and releases will now also be available for VC9. Old binaries using
VC6 are still supported and released in the line with
VC9. - The PDO_OCI
php_pdo_oci8.dll library (for use with Oracle version 8
client libraries) is no longer being built. Instead, use
php_pdo_oci.dll (note no ‘8’) with Oracle 10 or 11 client
libraries. Connection to other database versions is still
supported. - For the OCI8 extension, a new library
php_oci8_11g.dll is available in addition to
php_oci8.dll. Only one can be enabled at any time. Use
php_oci8.dll with Oracle 10.2 client libraries. Use
php_oci8_11g.dll with Oracle 11 or later client libraries.
Connection to other database versions is still
supported.
Windows support has been added for the following
functions:
- checkdnsrr()
- dns_get_record()
- fnmatch()
- getmxrr()
- getopt()
- imagecolorclosesthwb()
- inet_ntop()
- inet_pton()
- link()
- linkinfo()
- mcrypt_create_iv()
- readlink()
- socket_create_pair() – This function was
previously available on Windows, but was disabled as of PHP 4.3.0
due to a bug. - stream_socket_pair()
- symlink()
- time_nanosleep()
- time_sleep_until()
Other changes:
- Improved portability of
the stat(), touch(),
filemtime(), filesize()
functions, and other related functions (100% portable for the
available data). - It is now possible to
create hard links on Windows using the link() function, and symbolic links using the
symlink() function. Hard links are available
as of Windows 2000, and symbolic links as of Windows
Vista. - The Windows version of
PHP now exposes a set of constants prefixed PHP_WINDOWS_*.
A list of these constants and their usage can be found at Predefined
Constants.
Warning
Support for the ISAPI module has been dropped.
Use the improved FastCGI SAPI module instead.
Note: A new
dedicated site for PHP on Windows is now available, including
downloads, release candidates, and snapshots in various flavors
(thread-safe/not-thread-safe, VC6/VC9, x86/x64). The URL of this
site is » https://windows.php.net/.