Building a PHP Test Environment in Windows

Build a PHP test environment on Windows is a two step process:

1. Install “Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)”.
2. Install PHP.

The PHP binaries you'll be using in this test environment require the “Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistribution Package (x86)” in order to run. Please download and install this package. Please note, we recommend the (x86) package even if you are running on a 64-bit version of Windows.