diff --git a/.github/scripts-windows/run-tests-php.cmd b/.github/scripts-windows/run-tests-php.cmd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9d6b43d282
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts-windows/run-tests-php.cmd
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+REM C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\choco.exe install php -y --package-parameters='"/DontAddToPath"'
+
+git clone https://github.com/antlr/antlr-php-runtime.git
+move antlr-php-runtime runtime\PHP
+
+cd runtime-testsuite
+mvn -Dparallel=classes -DthreadCount=4 -Dtest=php.** test -Dantlr-php-php="C:\tools\php\php.exe"
+cd ..
diff --git a/.github/workflows/windows.yml b/.github/workflows/windows.yml
index 7f762f29f4..b8bbf9f1d2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/windows.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/windows.yml
@@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
 #       TARGET: [java, cpp, csharp, dart, go, javascript, php, python2, python3]
-        TARGET: [java, python2, python3, javascript, csharp, dart, go]
+        TARGET: [java, python2, python3, javascript, csharp, dart, go, php]
 #        TARGET: [php]
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Check out latest code
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - name: Set up JDK 11
       uses: actions/setup-java@v1
       with:
@@ -54,6 +55,13 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-go@v2
       with:
         go-version: '^1.13.1' 
+# requires manually setting up pwsh
+    - name: Setup PHP 8.2
+      uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
+      with:
+        php-version: '8.2'
+        extensions: mbstring    
+        tools: composer
     - name: Build tool with Maven
       run: mvn install -DskipTests=true -Darguments="-Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true" -B -V
     - name: Test with Maven