PHP on Windows

APRIL 12, 2023 | SLIDE 1


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PHP on Windows

Maarten Balliauw – RealDolmenE-mail: [email protected]

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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, ...

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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 WINDOWSIf PHP matters, better make it a first-class citizen…


MICROSOFT AND THE PHP COMMUNITY

BeforeNo Core developer working on or for Windows

Windows was a 2nd class platform

Binaries releases days or weeks after the sources releases

Absence QA on Windows

Lack of documentation and communication

NowCreation of the Windows Internals Team

•2 core developers•7 regular helpers, contributors or testers (growing)

Windows is now a primary platform

Synchronized releases•5.2.6, 5.2.7, 5.2.8, 5.3.0 beta

QA on Windows•95% of the core tests pass on Windows

Dedicated communication channels

•Mailing list, Windows internal list, iis.net/php(http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php)•IRC channel on freenode #php-dev-win


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.

Windows 5.2 Linux 5.2 Linux 5.3 Optimized

Windows 5.3 Windows 5.3 Optimized

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15

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3530.194

27.9609999999999

20.1140000000001 19.985

16.436

PHPBench 5x Looped Run In Seconds

Time


FASTCGI ON IISHow 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…

CG

I A new php.exe process for every requestAdvantage• Very stable!

Disadvantage• Slow due to I/O

overhead of process creation on Windows

ISA

PI PHP loaded as an extension in IIS’ memory spaceAdvantage• Better

performance

Disadvantage• Not that stable…• Many PHP

extensions are not thread safe


AND ALONG CAME IMPROVEMENT!C

GI A new php.exe

process for every requestAdvantage• Very stable!Disadvantage• Slow due to I/O

overhead of process creation on Windows

ISA

PI PHP loaded as

an extension in IIS’ memory spaceAdvantage• Better

performanceDisadvantage• Not that stable…• Many PHP

extensions are not thread safe

Fast

CG

I Process caching and pooling mechanismAdvantage• Faster than CGI• More Stable than

ISAPI• Can run non-

thread-safe versions of PHP extensions


FASTCGI


DEMOFastCGI 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 …

http://www.viprive.com/


WINCACHE EXTENSIONMaking 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




DEMOWinCache 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 Server

http://www.commerceguys.com/about/news/drupal-7-sql-server-preview

http://bit.ly/cjGvO3






HERE ARE YOUR OPTIONS!

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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

http://microsoft.com/web



DEMOWeb Platform Installer


SDK’SWhat 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/

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

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 Tools for Eclipse Windows Azure SDK for PHP AppFabric SDK for PHP Windows Azure Command-Line Tools for PHP Zend Framework contribution



TOOLINGHow do I use all this?


MICROSOFT EXPRESSION WEB


WINDOWS AZURE TOOLS FOR ECLIPSE


SILVERLIGHT TOOLS FOR ECLIPSE


SEO OPTIMIZATION TOOL


What’s in the cloud?RESOURCESWhere can I learn more?


RESOURCES

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

Interop Bridges 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


QUESTIONSPossibly Answers


THANK YOU!

Maarten Balliauwhttp://blog.maartenballiauw.be

Technology

PHP on Windows