Wez Furlong has two new postings over on his weblog today - Scheduling tasks on win32 with PHP and Running PHP as a Service on Win32. Both dealing with an issue that hasn't been covered very extensively in the PHP world, but is growing in importance all the time.

In Scheduling tasks on win32 with PHP, he explains how to use the win32scheduler extension to: run tasks, get info on a specific task, delete a task from the scheduler, show all of the current tasks, and update a currently running task. This extension should also be showing up on the PHP 5 PECL snaps page in the next couple of hours.

The other posting covers a simple topic (seems simple, doesn't it?) of running PHP as a service on a win32 system. Thankfully, his win32service extension is up to the task of making life much easier. Using this simple extension, running PHP as a service (and even just interacting with the win32 service listing) is a much simpler thing, opening all kinds of new doors for the win32-only groups out there...