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Tim Keller Lead Developer Umoya Networks www.umoya.net DTL318

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PHP GATECRASHES A MICROSOFT EVENT

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PHP at a Microsoft event What on earth? A Microsoft Primer for PHP developers A PHP Primer for Microsoft developers Either way, welcome! Thanks for coming.

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Who am I Tim Keller (@timkeller or 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, IM TIM KELLER LEAD PHP DEVELOPER www.mystaffroom.net tim@mystaffroom.net

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Goals Good 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

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Stuff well talk about 6 things. Simple. Microsoft and Opensource PHP and IIS Powershell for IIS SQL Server Driver for PHP Microsoft Ajax Library Silverlight and PHP

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TAG TWEETS WITH #techedafrica FOLLOW ME twitter.com/timkeller

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Microsoft and OpenSource

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D ENIA L Its not just a river in Egypt.

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Microsoft and OpenSource Surprising 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

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Microsoft and OpenSource Surprising 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

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

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Why PHP anyway?

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WordpressphpBBMediaWiki DrupalGallerySugarCRM DokuWiki SilverStripe CMS Joomla PHP Web Applications

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CakePHPCodeIgniterDrupal eZ Components KohanaPEAR Zend Framework ZoopHorde PHP Web Frameworks

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YahooFlickr FacebookDigg YouTubeWikipedia Commercial sites using PHP

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HARD TO IGNORE.

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PHP on Windows, with IIS

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PHP on Windows Its 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

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Performance vs. Reliability CGI Invokes a new php.exe process for each request Advantage Very stable Disadvantage SLOOOW due to I/O overhead of Process Creation on Windows ISAPI PHP Loaded as an extension in IISs memory space Advantages Better performance Disadvantages Not very stable Many PHP (PECL) extensions are not Thread-Safe FastCGI Process caching and pooling mechanism Advantages Faster than CGI More Stable than ISAPI Can run non-thread- safe versions of PHP and PECL extensions

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

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IIS7+ FastCGI Handler Basic Architecture FastCGI process pool for PHP5 IIS Worker Process Read ConfigurationAuthenticateAuthorizeMap RequestHandle RequestSend ResponseLog Request FastCGI handler ASP.NET Static Request queue php-cgi.exe FastCGI process pool for PHP4 php.exe FastCGI protocol over named pipes or TCP

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C OMMUNIT Y Youd be surprised what you can accomplish when you work with people who have common goals and ideals.

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

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2008 Microsofts 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

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

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

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Where to get all this PHP 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)

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

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IIS7 features Remote Management capability XML-based configuration system Modular architecture for reduced attack surface Ability to extend IIS7 using managed code Integration with Windows Media Server Advanced Diagnostics

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M ISSION IMPOSSIBL E Waitwhat?

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PHP Developers want: Multiple versions of PHP on one server. PHP4PHP5.2PHP5.3PHP6.0

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

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More PHP'ing Tim Keller Lead Developer Umoya Networks

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PowerShell and IIS Powerful command line for Windows With IIS7.5 you can manipulate your IIS config from the command line.

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SQL Server and PHP An 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/http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlphp/ (good blog)

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

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

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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

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

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

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Silverlight from PHP

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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. Hello World!

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Silverlight from PHP Tim Keller Lead Developer Umoya Networks

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Futures for PHP on Windows IE WebSlices from PHP applications PHP MS Virtual Earth Integration On-going SQL Server driver development Azure PHP SDK

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Call to action We want you! Enable FastCGI in IIS7 Install PHP Grab some cool PHP apps Tell your friends how great PHP is on IIS. Tweet about it!

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

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www.microsoft.com/teched International Content & Community http://microsoft.com/technet Resources for IT Professionals http://microsoft.com/msdn Resources for Developers www.microsoft.com/learning Microsoft Certification & Training Resources Resources 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. 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.zawww.tech-ed.co.za

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