The win32service extension is a Windows specific extension that allows PHP to communicate with the Service Control Manager to start, stop, register and unregister services, and even allows your PHP scripts to run as a service.

This version is available for PHP 7.0 and PHP 7.1 and work for all SAPI.

Read the phpinfo() for know the available function on the currend SAPI.

Download the latest version for your PHP 7 version.

Unzip the package and copy the extention into the folder ext of your PHP installation.

After copy, edit the the file php.ini and add one line for load the extension. In example for PHP 7.0 in TS mode and 32 bit architecture : extension = php_win32service-7.0-ts-vc14-x86.dll.

Check in command line if the extension is correctly loaded with this command php --ri win32service.

If the output indicate this extension is not loaded, check the PHP configuration.

The downloaded zip contain examples scripts used for testing. The file service.php contains an skeleton for implement one service in PHP.

For use this example, open an command line window in administrator mode. Go to the example folder and run this command php service.php create for install the test service.

Now a new service is added into the Windows service manager. You can start, stop this service from the Windows service manager or from the administrator command line.

Good coding !

Crash, featur request, or suggest, please open an issue.

Help for the extension function, visit the official PHP web site

Extension PHP pour réaliser des services Windows [FR]

If you want contribute, you can open an issue for propose your idea. If you can writing the code, fork this repository and write the code, finally propose your enhancement by a pull request.