Join Developer Evangelist Chris Koenig for a guided tour of running PHP on Windows. In this talk Chris will explore enhancements to the Windows environment for installing, configuration and running PHP applications as well as explore some of the tools available on the Microsoft platform to the PHP developer.

• Overview of PHP on Windows

• Target towards making Windows the best place to run PHP applications
• DEMO: Tour IIS Management tools, discuss extensibility
• DEMO: Show web.config management of IIS on a per-web site basis

• Web Platform Installer

• Automatically download and install necessary components to run applications, including PHP applications
• Includes most dependencies (Doesn’t auto-install MySQL)
• Not all applications are represented today, but there is a process to get your apps/distros listed
• DEMO: Download and Install Drupal with all dependencies

• URL Rewrite vs. .htaccess

• DEMO: Show settings in Web.Config that mirror .htaccess

• Custom php.ini per web site

• DEMO: Show configuration changes needed to run custom php.ini

• VS.PHP and Expression Web

• 3rd party tooling for doing PHP development on Windows
• DEMO: Tour environment, including debugging, CSS management, etc.