Microsoft's Mark Brown says that running PHP on Microsoft platforms is beginning to become a very lucrative option for businesses.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — For some time, running PHP on Windows or on IIS has not been seen as an option – especially in a production environment – however, this is changing, according to Microsoft’s Mark Brown. In his presentation, “PHP on Windows? – Yeah Right”, at cPanel Conference 2010, Brown said “you can get PHP screaming on Windows.” This has a lot to do with Microsoft’s recent efforts into developing applications around PHP. One of the major developments has been PHP Manager for IIS 7 (www.microsoft.com/web/php/), a open-source extension for IIS Management Console, which Brown said greatly simplifies the tasks of setting up, configuring and managing one or more PHP versions on an IIS server.
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Use it to register PHP with IIS, run multiple PHP versions, get the information about PHP runtime settings, add and modify php.ini directives and enable or disable PHP extensions. This is helpful in conjunction with PHP installed via Web Platform Installer or PHP Windows Installer.
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Further, the Windows Web App Gallery gives an easy way for users to find, install and deploy popular PHP Web applications such as WordPress Drupal, and Joomla. All these applications are tested to run seamlessly on the Microsoft Web Platform.
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Microsoft has also been continuing its work with the PHP community and the larger open-source community, for instance, making the code for SQL server driver for PHP available on Codeplex.
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These continuing efforts, which are by no means fully realized, are making running PHP on Microsoft platforms a more lucrative option not only for an individual running a WordPress blog, but also for more demanding applications. Brown concluded, “Windows and IIS is now viable for production PHP application hosting.”
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