PHP is a wildly popular scripting language for the web, and powers some of the largest websites on the Internet. Traditionally, PHP on Windows has been something of an oxymoron. Join us and find out why PHP is now highly performant, scalable and efficient when run under FastCGI on Windows Server and IIS. Presented by a local PHP developer, you'll gain insight into how you can take advantage of PHP on Windows, and integrate it with technologies like PowerShell, ASP.NET and SQLServer. Originally presented at Microsoft TechEd Africa 2009 (August 3, 2009)

3. Windows Server & FastCGI technologies for PHP Tim Keller Lead Developer Umoya Networks · www.umoya.net DTL318

4. PHP GATECRASHES A MICROSOFT EVENT

5. PHP at a Microsoft eventWhat on earth? A Microsoft Primer for PHP developers A PHPPrimer for Microsoftdevelopers(more likely, since this is TechEd) Either way, welcome! Thanks for coming.

6. Who am ITim Keller (@timkelleror timk.co.za) Your typical Mac/Linux type Lead Developer of a PHP-based cloud hosted tool for teachers and school admins, called staffroom Microsoft-friendly HI, I’M TIM KELLER LEAD PHP DEVELOPER www.mystaffroom.net tim@mystaffroom.net

7. GoalsGood intensions Show you some cool stuff Tell you where you can get it Tell you where you can learn more Answer questions Go have a beer with all of you

8. Stuff we’ll talk about6 things. Simple. Microsoft and Opensource PHP and IIS Powershell for IIS SQL Server Driver for PHP Microsoft Ajax Library Silverlight and PHP

9. TAG TWEETS WITH #techedsa2009 FOLLOW ME twitter.com/timkeller

10. Microsoft and OpenSource

11. DeniaL It’s not just a river in Egypt.

12. Microsoft and OpenSourceSurprising perhaps MS Redmond OSS lab Staffed by OSS and Linux experts 300 servers of varying types 340+ Linux distros available for testing Tests interoperability of OSS and Windows Research of OSS technologies

13. Microsoft and OpenSourceSurprising perhaps Projects so far… Firefox Silverlight support Silverlight/Moonlight common standard Vista Firefox compatibility FastCGI hosting of PHP and Python on IIS SQL Server drivers for PHP and Java

14. Microsoft and OpenSourceSurprising perhaps Active and Future projects PHP Active Directory integration PHP SharePoint integration SugarCRM SQL Server connectivity Windows - Apache build support/research

15. Why PHP anyway?

16. BraverY Wounds Heal. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.

17. PHP Web Applications

18. PHP Web Frameworks

19. Commercial sites using PHP

21. HARD TO IGNORE.

23. PHP on Windows, with IIS

24. PHP on WindowsIt’s actually been around for a long time Most PHP developers: Develop on Windows Deploy to Linux, BSD, *nix. Perception that PHP on IIS sucks (this was true) Often install Apache for Dev or Production

25. Performance vs. Reliability

26. FastCGI: Pooling and Caching HTTP Request index.php PHP PHP HTTP Request login.php PHP PHP FastCGI process pool for PHP5 PHP processes are reused. No process creation overhead = 20x performance increase HTTP Request header.php

27. IIS7+ FastCGI HandlerBasic Architecture FastCGI process pool for PHP5 IIS Worker Process FastCGI protocol over named pipes or TCP php-cgi.exe FastCGI process pool for PHP4 Request queue php.exe

28. CommunitY You’d be surprised what you can accomplish when you work with people who have common goals and ideals.

29. 2006Zend and Microsoft announce collaboration 2007Zend and PHP Core Devs start optimising PHP5.2.x builds for windows. FastCGI extensions for IIS6. 2008MS release IIS7 with native FastCGI for PHP.

30. 2008Microsoft’s Pierre Joye and the PHP community conduct major work on the PHP 5.3 codebase. Fixed 60+ Windows-specific bugs Updated every library to latest version (some were 10+ years old) Compiled PHP with VC++ 9 (VS 2008) x86 and x64 builds for Windows

31. 2009 Microsoft release IIS 7.5 builds with Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 builds. Zend ships Zend Core for Windows with Microsoft’s FastCGI implementation

32. Popular Web Servers (June ‘09) IIS7 IIS6 IIS5 Courtesy:Netcraft Web Server Survey, June 2009.

33. Where to get all thisPHP and FastCGI goodness IIS 6 (Windows Server 2003) http://www.iis.net/php IIS 7 (Windows Vista SP1 and Server 2008) Ships with the product. Activate the CGI feature through Server Manager IIS 7.5 (Windows 7 and Server 2008R2) Supports Failed Request Tracing for FastCGI (PHP)

34. Setting up PHP on Windows & IIS Tim Keller Lead Developer Umoya Networks demo

35. Mission impossiblE Wait…what?

36. PHP Developers want: Multiple versions of PHP on one server.

37. Real-world PHP Tim Keller Lead Developer Umoya Networks demo

38. URL Rewriting Ever used mod_rewrite in Apache? http://timk.co.za/index.php?type=post&id=34becomes http://timk.co.za/post/34 IIS7 offers this, without the need for complex Regular Expressions

39. URL Rewrite Tim Keller Lead Developer Umoya Networks demo

40. PowerShell and IIS Powerful command line for Windows With IIS7.5 you can manipulate your IIS config using PowerShell Create websites Manage Security Configure FastCGI Much more

41. SQL Server and PHPAn INNER JOIN made in heaven? Simple Goal To provide robust, scalable, and reliable SQL Server connectivity to PHP developers targeting the Windows platform. Built by Microsoft with community feedback Version 1.0 released July 2008 http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlphp/ Microsoft working with SugarCRM (PHP app)

42. ASP.NET AJAX and PHP Take back the web, sorta.

43. What is AJAX? Traditional Client/Server AJAX Paradigm User Interface User Interface Ajax Engine Request Response Web Server Web Server

44. What AJAX (sometimes) means DHTML: HTML + Javascript Animations Drag and Drop Show and Hide Partial page updates User interface makes background calls to server AJA* : XML, HTML, Text, JSON…

45. ASP.NET AJAX A library in three parts MS Ajax LibraryJavascript files for the frontend ASP.Net Ajax ExtensionsServer-side .NET code ASP.Net Ajax Control Toolkit Shared-source components The PHP MS AJAX library was released in 2008. http://codeplex.com/phpmsajax

46. ASP.NET AJAX with PHP Tim Keller Lead Developer Umoya Networks demo

47. Silverlight from PHP

48. Hi, haaaave you met XAML? XML-based description of a Rich User Interface. Part of the Windows Presentation Foundation. PHP can easily output text/xml. XAML also supports UI Events. Which is cool. <Canvas xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"> <TextBlock>Hello World!</TextBlock> </Canvas>

49. Silverlight from PHP Tim Keller Lead Developer Umoya Networks demo

50. Interoperability It’s about building relationships for the common good.

51. Call to actionWe want you! EnableFastCGI in IIS7 Install PHP Grab some cool PHP apps Tell your friends how great PHP is on IIS. Tweet about it!

52. Session Resources Web Platform Installerhttp://tinyurl.com/mswebplatform URL Rewrite in IIS7 http://www.iis.net/extensions/URLRewrite PHP on Windows central http://www.iis.net/php PHP builds and sourcecode for Windows http://windows.php.net Microsoft AJAX for PHP www.codeplex.com/phpmsajax Silverlight www.silverlight.net and http://tinyurl.com/sl3released

53. question & answer

54. Required Slide Speakers, TechEd 2009 is not producing a DVD. Please announce that attendees can access session recordings from Tech-Ed website. These will only be available after the event. Tech·Ed Africa 2009 sessions will be made available for download the week after the event from: www.tech-ed.co.za www.microsoft.com/teched International Content & Community www.microsoft.com/learning Microsoft Certification & Training Resources http://microsoft.com/technet Resources for IT Professionals http://microsoft.com/msdn Resources for Developers Resources

55. Related Content Required Slide Speakers, please list the Breakout Sessions, TLC Interactive Theaters and Labs that are related to your session. Any queries, please check with your Track Owner. Breakout Sessions WUX301 – Microsoft Codename Velocity (Mon, 15:45, C3) DTL302 – Embrace OpenSource on CodePlex(Tues, 12:00, A3) WSV309 – What’s new in Server Core for Windows Server 2008 (Tues, 14:30, D5) WUX302 – ASP.NET Under the covers (Tues, 17:30, C3) Whiteboard Sessions WTB216 – Web Development Whiteboard Discussion (Tuesday, 13:15-14:15, Room C1)

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