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Last night I’ve got an email from a WSM user who asked about a precomipled binary of WSM for PHP 5.1 and 5.2.

So, I’m proud to annonce release 0.9.1 of WSM.
Use the berlios.de mirrors for download.

WSM stands for Windows Service Management and it’s an extension to PHP so you can control Windows Services from – umm, well – your PHP scripts. WSM is released under PHP License, version 3.0.

More details, including the API or the installation procedure, can be found on the WSM web site, http://wsm.berlios.de

I have migrated WSM from CVS to Subversion today, basically re-imported the sources into the new repository since I’m more comfortable with svn.

Because I’m a linux user now, the development on WSM is somehow discontinued.

The good news is that I have found a great OS emulator, qemu , installed windows XP as a guest OS on my computer, the free microsoft compiler and now I’m ready to code on WSM.

My TODO list:

• WSMService::create should return a WSMService object
• More methods related with windows services
• Use WSM to control a service on a network computer (tests)
• Update API docs from WSM web-site
• Create a new relase.
• Compile it with windows gcc (a Makefile, anyone?)
• Add methods to create a service from a php script (like win32service has).
• Rule the World.

Dont know when I can finish this list, but if you can help me with:

• code: if you are familiar with PHP internals or with windows API
• tests: get the sources, compile them and load the wsm extension
• web-site maintenance (what skills you need for this?).

please, do contact me.
In return, you can add a new line in your resume:

I did task X for a nice open-source project, WSM

or you can add your name on the credits, or you can just learn something new.

WSM (Windows Service Management) is a great PHP extension (not published with pecl) witch provides a nice OO API that will help you to control windows services (start/stop, create/remove, query) from php.

Update 10.April.2006

The sync was made on the berlios servers and the subversion service is available. Checkout the code with:

svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/wsm

More info on how to get WSM source from berlios svn.

on WSM future:

• Step 0.5: Finish tasks from my TODO list
• Step 1: Create a clone of win32 module from python to php.
• Step 2: Port other cool win32 modules to php.