ASPHP 
Make ‘em Talk !
Bridging PHP & ASP.NET Applications
Joe Stagner
Opinionated Misfit Geek
Microsoft Corporation
Developer Tools & Platforms
http://www.MisfitGeek.com
Joe.Stagner@Microsoft.com

Why is Microsoft Interested in PHP
( ... and why am I here ? )

Microsoft & PHP
ZendCon & PHPTek / PHPWorks
Zend Partnership
FastCGI
PHP Expression Support
MS SQL Drivers for PHP
CodePlex PHP Projects (Like AJAX PHP)
ADODB ***
URL Rewrite
IIS.NET Guidance

New Stuff from My Team
Silverlight 2.0 b
Dynamic Data
ADO.NET Data Services
MVC
Web Forms “4.0”

Why Run On or Integrate With Windows?

Some Favorite PHP Applications
PHP-Nuke PostNuke RunCMS Mambo Xoops MyPHPAdmin
PHPBB2 VBulletin VBPortal cPanel Drupal e107
MD-Pro MyPHPNuke PHPWebSite TikiWiki Typo3 Xaraya
b2Evolution bBlog Serendipity WordPress TextPattern OSCommerce
OSCNuke Zen Cart eGroupWare phpGroupWare Site@School ATutor
Moodle Segue Coppermine QwikiWikki SugarCRM WebCalendar

PHP and the Microsoft Developer Ecosystem.
Windows Ecosystem
– Over 600,000 partners in the MS Ecosystem.
– Microsoft makes MUCH more than Windows
– Microsoft is making huge investments
interoperability standards and technologies.
(WS-I, etc.)
– Microsoft provides
…. a complete turn-key infrastructure
…. Individual best-of-breed applications for you to
choose from
– Rapidly growing Service Offerings
– FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES

Software Options from Microsoft
Identity
MS Access MS Outlook BizTalk SQL Server MS LCS Integration
Server
Business
MS Excel PowerPoint SharePoint SQL RS ISA Server
Manager
MS FrontPage MS Project MS CMS SQL AS Virtual Earth Data Analyzer
Small Business Exchange
MS InfoPath SQL NS Messenger MS Mobile
Accounting Server
Commerce
Live Meeting MS Visio Project Server MapPoint Tablet PC
Server
MS Starter
MS OneNote MS Word MS CRM MOM App Center
Kits

More Software Options from Microsoft
Active
IIS 6/7 Axapta Navision Info Bridge Media Center
Directory
Retail
ADAM MSMQ Great Plains WSH Info Card
Management
Small Windows
Authorization Windows
Business Unix DirectX WinFX
Manager Server 2003
Manager Services
Operations Windows Windows
MS Solomon VBA / VSA ActiveX
Manager Mobile Workflow
MS Presentation
XML-WS Application MSN Hosted
Enterprise Foundation
WSE Center Search Controls
Reporting (Avalon)
Windows System Windows Host
Windows Vista
Media Management Index Integration
Embedded Longhorn
Server Server Server Server

More Software Options from Microsoft
Slverlight
WF or BizTalk
Live Services
Virtual Earth
Media Services

Does PHP on Windows Actually WORK ?

On Windows
Tools (Windows Only)
– VS.PHP
– Phalanger
– NuSphere PHPEd, Delphi for PHP
Tools (Cross Platform)
– Zend Studio
– ActiveState Komodo
Drivers
– MSPHPSQL

Other Integrations

PHP & IIS
Versions & App Pools

Example
Membership Integration

ASP.NET Membership
Native MS SQL Provider
– SQL Server or SQL Express
– 3rd party ASP.NET Membership Provider
MySQL
Oracle
XML

Open Source Providers

ASP.NET Membership Integration
ASP.NET
– Complete Managed API
PHP on Windows
– Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP (Willow)
– Web Services
– .NET / COM
PHP On Linux
– FreeTDS
– Sockets
– Web Services

Setting Up ASP.NET Membership
aspnet_regsql.exe

Complete Schema
Applications
Membership
Roles
Usage
demonstrated in
the MS SQL
Provider Source
Code.

Enable SQL for TCP/IP

Open the Windows Firewall

ASP.NET Authentication from PHP on Windows

Authentication from PHP/Linux
MS SQL In Windows
– Security Configuration Required
Free TDS On Linux
– MS SQL via ODBC over TCP/IP
Platform Specific PHP Code

Other Integrations

Office Documents from PHP on Windows

Microsoft Silverlight
CLIENT !
Cross Platform
Rich Media
You're hearing all about it !!!

Other Integrations

Silverlight from PHP on Windows & Linux

Other Integrations

Microsoft AJAX
Intergrated with ASP.NET Server
Complealty Independent Client Framework
Server Implementation Samples for Non-
MS
Completely Free
Completely Open Source

Microsoft AJAX PHP on Windows & Linux

Other Integrations

XML Web Services
PHP 5 – Native SOAP Extension
PEAR::SOAP
NuSOAP
ezSOAP

.NET Web Services from PHP

Other Integrations

PHP and COM
What’s COM ?
PHP doesn’t REALLY speak COM.
COM is the Lingua Franca of Windows
– VB
– C++ (Ours and many others)
– Delphi
– Python
– Perl
– Cobol
– Fortran

Creating a COM Object
Instance
<?php
$myCOMObject =new
COM(\"COMObject.COMClass\");
$myCOMObject->someMethod(“Some Argument”);
?>

COM Objects from PHP on Windows

Other Integrations

.NET Framework and Tools
VB C++ C# J# …
Common Language Specification
Visual Studio .NET
ASP .NET Windows
Web Forms Web Services
Forms
Mobile Internet Toolkit
ADO .NET and XML
Base Class Library
Common Language Runtime
Operating System

The Shared Source CLI
VS.NET System.Web (ASP.NET) System.WinForms
C# SessionState UI Design ComponentModel
Caching HtmlControls
JScript Security WebControls
VB Configuration System.Drawing
Simple Web Services
VC/MC++ Drawing2D Printing
Protocols
Imaging Text
Debugger Discovery Description
Designers System.Data (ADO.NET) System.Xml
ADO SQL XSLT Serialization
SDK Tools Design Adapters XPath
CorDBG
System
ECMA CLI
ILAsm Collections IO Security Runtime
Configuration Net ServiceProcess InteropServices
ILDbDump
Diagnostics Reflection Text Remoting
SN
Globalization Resources Threading Serialization
ILDAsm
MetaInfo Common Language Runtime
GC App Domain Loader JIT
PEVerify
MSIL Common Type System Class Loader
Platform Adaptation Layer Networking
Boot Loader
Threads Sync Timers Filesystem

Base Class Library
System.Web System.Windows.Forms
Services UI Design ComponentModel
Description HtmlControls
Discovery WebControls
Protocols System.Drawing
Caching Security Drawing2D Printing
Configuration SessionState Imaging Text
System.Data System.Xml
OleDb SqlClient XSLT Serialization
Common SQLTypes XPath
System
Collections IO Security Runtime
Configuration Net ServiceProcess InteropServices
Diagnostics Reflection Text Remoting
Globalization Resources Threading Serialization

Microsoft .NET
COM Callable Wrapper
Runtime Callable Wrapper
PHP Restrictions
– OLE 2
Parameterless Constructors

.NET Objects from PHP on Windows

Other Integrations

Microsoft Services
Most are Free
Most are Platform Independent
Most are Ad Free

.Microsoft Services from PHP

Other Integrations

Phalanger

WHY - Helpers you might need.
Component Creation
Calling binary .DLLs
Simplifying Interoperability
Remote Instancing
Application Multithreading
Asynchronous Dependencies
Multi Phase Transactions
Aggregating Multi-Interfaced Objects
Type Encapsulation & Abstraction
Object Scope Promotion
Static Instance Access

Integration Options
The Windows File System
SMTP
X.500
WDDX
MS-SQL Server, ADO, ODBC
– What about the new auth provider?
– What about database’d session state
XML
LDAP

Integration Options
Sockets
RSS
XML-RPC
XML Web Services / SOAP
PHP Extensibility Mechanisms

Integration Options
HTTP Form Tricks
They can be Open
They can be Hidden
They can be Encrypted
Cookie Tricks
They can also be encrypted
Finally some ADVANTAGE to
HTTP’s stateless protocol.

Integration Options
Build your own.
PHP on Windows built with VC++ (6)
PECL Extensions
PHP is Open Source

A PHP Project Wish List
A native Active Directory API PHP
An AzMan API for PHP
A PHP Bridge to ADAM
An ASP.NET 2.0 Authentication Provider for
PHP
A seamless session state bridge.
A CDO / Exchange Bridge for PHP
PHP-Nuke, Mambo, etc. etc.
– On Microsoft SQL
– Optionally in Phalanger
– Optionally using AD

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•Andrew Stopford

Q&A
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