PHP on Windows

PHP on Windows
Maarten Balliauw – RealDolmenE-mail: maarten.balliauw@realdolmen.comBlog: http://blog.maartenballiauw.beTwitter: @maartenballiauw

Who am I?
Maarten Balliauw
Antwerp, Belgium
www.realdolmen.com
Focus on web
ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, PHP, Azure, VSTS, …
MVP ASP.NET
Interested in interoperability
PHPExcel, PHPLinq, Windows Azure SDK for PHP, ...
http://blog.maartenballiauw.be
http://twitter.com/maartenballiauw

Agenda
Why PHP matters…
An overview of initiatives
PHP core development
FastCGI
WinCache extension
SQL Server driver for PHP
Microsoft Web Platform Installer
SDK’s
Tooling
SEO Optimization Tool
Resources
Q&A

Why PHP matters…
Web applications
Wordpress
Drupal
Joomla
phpBB
MediaWiki
SugarCRM
Gallery2
Commercial entities
Yahoo!
Flickr
Digg
Facebook
YouTube
Wikipedia
 Hard to ignore!

PHP on Windows
If PHP matters, better make it a first-class citizen…

Microsoft and the PHP Community
Before
Now

http://windows.php.net

PHP 5.3 on Windows
Is the most significant update to PHP on Windows!
All libraries updated to latest versions(in some cases newer versions that used on Linux)
Re-write of the build system from scratch
Top PHP Windows community programmer working for Microsoft (Pierre Joye)
Build with VS 2008
Available in 32 and 64 bit version
Created windows.php.net
99% of all POSIX calls changed to native Windows calls

By the numbers: Running PHPBench looped 5x
Both computers are a HP 8 core (2 procs x Quad core) 16gb ram.
Linux (Centos 5.2) vs. Windows Server 2008 x86
NOTE: phpbench onlytests internal PHP engineperformance. It doesnot do IO of any kind.

FastCGI on IIS
How and where will my application run?

PHP on Windows – History
IIS support has been there for a long time
Apache runs on Windows as well
But…
IIS gives best performance on Windows
Unfortunately the choice was always between stability and performance…

Allow me to explain…

And along came improvement!

FastCGI

Demo
FastCGI on IIS

IIS execution pipeline
Since your PHP app is part of the IIS execution pipeline…
…you can use IIS URL rewriting
…you can use IIS as a load balancer (ARR)
www.viprive.com
…you can use any HttpModule out there
ASP.NET membership / authentication
Output caching
…

WinCache extension
Making it even faster…

Windows Cache Extension (“WinCache”)
PHP module for 5.2 and 5.3
IIS specific PHP accelerator
So only works in IIS!
No code modifications needed in your application
Cache layers:
Bytecode cache – Caches compiled PHP scripts
Script cache – Cache script sources in memory to reduce I/O access and UNC file share access
Relative file path cache – Caches relative file path
Session cache – Sessions stored in shared memory
PHP functions to obtain information about the cache status
http://www.iis.net/download/WinCacheForPhp

Demo
WinCache extension

SQL Server Driver for PHP
Data access should be fast as well!

SQL Server Driver for PHP v1.1
PHP extension for Windows
So only works on Windows!
Reliable, scalable and fast integration with SQL Server for PHP
Relies on the Microsoft SQL Server Native Client to communicate with SQL Server.
http://bit.ly/cwDLR1

“Did you just forgetto mention PDO support?”

No, there is no PDO support. Oh, wait!
Unless you want the new CTP bits!
SQL Server Driver for PHP v2.0 CTP
Support for PHP Data Objects (PDO)
Better UTF-8 support
Example: Drupal 7 on SQL Serverhttp://www.commerceguys.com/about/news/drupal-7-sql-server-preview
http://bit.ly/cjGvO3

Here are your options!

Demo
SQL Server Driver for PHP

Microsoft Web Platform Installer
“Yum for Windows”?

Easy installation of YOUR environment
Easy installer providing
Platform installation (IIS, extra modules, configuration, …)
Both ASP.NET and PHP
Application installation
Both ASP.NET and PHP
http://microsoft.com/web

Demo
Web Platform Installer

SDK’s
What else is out there?

Microsoft and PHP = LOTS of goodies
Some highlights…
SQL Server Reporting Services SDK for PHP
OData SDK for PHP
Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse
Windows Azure SDK for PHP
AppFabric SDK for PHP
Windows Azure Command-Line Tools for PHP
Eclipse Tools for Silverlight
Information Cards for PHP
Internet Explorer Webslices and Accelerators for PHP
PHP and Silverlight
SQL CRUD Application
Wizard for PHP Toolkit for PHP and Bing Maps
Overview: http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com/

SQL Server Reporting Services SDK for PHP
SSRS?
Reporting tool in SQL Server
Very powerful!
Various output formats
Can be linked to MySQL, PostgreSQL, …
API to interoperate with SQL Server Reporting Services
List available reports within a PHP applications,
Provide custom parameters from a PHP web form,
Manage the rendering of the reports within a PHP application
http://ssrsphp.codeplex.com

OData SDK for PHP
OData?
Open Data Protocol
Unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today
Builds on HTTP, AtomPub and JSON
RESTful interface
Way data is delivered in MS CN “Dallas”
API to OData
Generate proxy classes to OData feeds
CRUD on OData feeds
http://odataphp.codeplex.com/

OData SDK for PHP
/* connect to the OData service */
$svc = new NorthwindEntities(NORTHWIND_SERVICE_URL);
/* get the list of Customers in the USA +the list of Orders */
$query = $svc->Customers()
->filter("Country eq 'USA'")
->Expand('Orders');
$customerResponse = $query->Execute();
/* get only CustomerID and CustomerName */
$query = $svc->Customers()
->filter("Country eq 'USA'")
->Select('CustomerID, CustomerName');
$customerResponse = $query->Execute();
/* create a new customer */
$customer = Customers::CreateCustomers('channel9', 'CHAN9');
$proxy->AddToCustomers($customer);
/* commit the change on the server */
$proxy->SaveChanges();

Windows Azure
Microsoft’s Cloud Computing offering
Web/worker role (= virtual machine)
Blobs, tables, queues, drives (= storage)
SQL Azure (= +/- SQL Server)
AppFabric (= access control & firewall punching)
“Dallas” (= Data-as-a-Service)
Working with PHP
Windows Azure SDK for PHP
AppFabric SDK for PHP
Windows Azure Command-Line Tools for PHP
Zend Framework contribution

Tooling
How do I use all this?

Microsoft Expression Web

Silverlight Tools for Eclipse

SEO Optimization Tool

What’s in the cloud?
Resources
Where can I learn more?

Resources
Microsoft Windows Azure Interop
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/interop/
InteropBridges
http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com/

Summary
PHP on Windows is a priority for Microsoft
Full range of PHP support Products and Services
Attract more customers to the MS platform through world-class support and resources
Microsoft wants you to succeed

Questions
Possibly Answers

THANK YOU!
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