title: What's happening with the PHP distribution on Windows?
body: <p>What's happening with the PHP distribution on Windows?</p>
  
  <p>I installed 4 different versions using default settings and none of them worked, at all.</p>
  
  <p>Two of them complained about missing <code>OCI.dll</code> and the other one about missing <code>zlib.dll</code>. </p>
  
  <p>This is a Windows 7 x64 machine and PHP directory was in PATH as requested - I double checked.</p>
  
  <p>The fun part is that <a href="http://windows.php.net" rel="nofollow">http://windows.php.net</a> even have a <code>qa</code> section but none of the builds that are on the front-page is working and they are supposed to being passed the QA stage :p</p>
  
  <p>PS. Please do not ask why I am trying to use it on Windows, is only for scientific purposes ;)</p>