Remix 2008: PHP with IIS

Friday, 23. May 2008, 14:55:53

This is my translation of the "PHP on Windows" report from the Remix 2008 conference, that takes place these days in Moscow.

Roman Zdevskyi, Microsoft
Report "PHP on Windows"
The main question — WHY???
He shows a slide with a huge amount of the PHP applications on it
Even slide with applications and solutions by MS
The advantage is that this two separate worlds can be combined
Shows the statistics where PHP seems to be far more popular than technologies by MS
They're going to open the secret!
Secret #1: MS knows there are browsers except IE
Secret #2: MS knows there are platforms except microsoft's. (LAMP)
Somebody think that MS treats LAMP badly. Not exactly.
MS likes the idea of the glue scenarios
He talks about how Microsoft opens standards, and enumerates the standards opened in the last year ...
It's hard to switch between MS and LAMP technologies
MS understands that cross-platform solutions is really important nowadays. That's why Silverlight works everywhere. ...
MS works on the PHP driver for SQL Server
They're going to demonstrate the driver
They show the advantages of the driver towards the self-made one. Correct Unicode treatment, UID ...
Then they shows an interesting slide where LAMP components (red background) are being replaced by the MS ones (the nice green background) ...
There will be free edition of the MS SQL Server (hello, Oracle!)
Express SQL Server will be limited by 1 Gb of RAM
"Myth: MS hosting is more expensive"
"Let's open the Masterhost website and compare the prices — see, they are the same!" (one hour ago they said that Masterhost is a certified MS partner) ...
MS concluded an agreement with Zend, in order that the last will optimize Fast CGI
"The PHP hosting possibility is just another additional scenario for the developer" ...
IIS can configure PHP scripts with the help of plugins. Demo.
IIS can generate PHP directly, and administrator can use graphical interface for it ...
You can cache PHP on the server side. Demo.
On the slide when they were replacing LAMP components, they've already replaced almost everything. There's now only PHP left on the top of the MS platform ...
"Want to know how vital this systems are? Let's invite Sergey Rizhkov, the CEO of Bitrix here!" ...
Rizhkov: "We're using different platforms, including Windows"
Rizhkov: "The new Bitrix will have the configuration files, that will help it to work on Windows" ...
The man from the SecurityLab is on scene
SecurityLab: "People love to hack us. Every subscriber of the Hacker magazine think it's his duty to attack us" ...
SecurityLab: "We choosed the MS platform and IIS server"
SecurityLab: "IIS 6 was almost without any vulnerabilities, it was reliable"
Slide: PHP applications are mixed with MS technologies
"The main advantage is that you don't need to alter PHP code to make it work on our platform" ...
"Myth: it's rather expensive to start with the MS platform"
MS has a lot of free applications for the development: C#, VB, C++, Visual Web Developer, SQL
Slide: "Adapted licensing"
"There's the ability to pay only by the fact of usage" ...
There's Nikolay Shifrin from Citrix on the scene
Shifrin: "We offer Citrix Net Scaler. It reduces the load of the web-servers"
(continues to advertise his product and invites people on the scene)
"Citrix Net Scaler and our Firewall can protect even phpBB and Joomla"
I've just noticed how they call the mix of LAMP components with MS technologies — "WISPA!"
Shifrin leaved the scene and the demonstration of the IIS continues
They show how easy it is to authorize users on the website with it's help ...
Looks like they replaced the authorization through PHP with the ASP.NET one
Everything's working, but they forgot the password. Another user has been created ...
Everything turns out. The moral: PHP and ASP.NET could coexist peacefully
Slides: "PHP on Windows — it's easy", "PHP on Windows — more possibilities"