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This entry is a re-post of Brian Swan 's entry on The Silver Lining blog. In my last post , I looked at the session handling functionality that is built into the Windows Azure SDK for PHP , which uses Azure Tables or Azure Blobs for storing session data. As I wrote that post, I wondered how easy it would be to use SQL Azure to store session data, especially since using a database to store session data is a common and familiar practice when building distributed PHP applications. As I found out, using...( read more ) Read More...
The latest release of PHP Manager 1.2 for IIS now includes Windows PowerShell commands that can be used to install, configure and manage PHP on IIS 7 from command line. In addition those commands can be used to automate the configuration and management tasks. Here are examples of what can be done with PHP Manager command line tools: Register a new PHP version: PS C:\Users\Administrator>New-PHPVersion -ScriptProcessor "C:\PHP\536\php-cgi.exe" Get information about current PHP configuration...( read more ) Read More...
WebMatrix is now available in final release form. :) What is WebMatrix? I first posted at the debut of WebMatrix beta back in July, describing WebMatrix as a complete Web development stack for pragmatic developers. WebMatrix elegantly integrates a Web server (IIS Express), database (SQL Compact) and programming frameworks (ASP.NET and PHP) into a single, integrated experience. Learn More and See it in Action You can learn more and see it in action on the WebMatrix home page . A list of some of the cool features is also online. Laurence Moroney also wrote a great tutorial for those who are new to Web development and want to get started with WebMatrix . WebMatrix makes it very easy to start a Web site using open source, including some of the most popular applications available like WordPress , Joomla , Drupal , DotNetNuke , Umbraco , ScrewTurn Wiki , and BlogEngine.NET . Join the WebMatrix Launch Event Today at 12:30 EST we’ll be live streaming...
At the annual ZendCon 2010 in Santa Clara, CA today, Zend Technologies announced general availability of Zend Framework 1.11, the latest release of its PHP application framework, which adds support for mobile application development and now includes the open source Simple Cloud API, allowing PHP developers to build portable cloud applications. The Zend Framework is a PHP application framework with more than 15 million downloads and over 500 contributors, including Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Adobe and...( read more ) Read More...
Today I am releasing PHP Manager for IIS 7 – beta, which is an IIS extension for setting up and managing multiple PHP installations on IIS 7 servers. It can be used to: Register PHP with IIS; Run multiple PHP versions side by side; Check PHP runtime configuration and environment (output of phpinfo() function) Configure various PHP settings Enable or disable PHP extensions Remotely manage PHP configuration in php.ini fille The PHP Manager installation packages can be downloaded from these locations...( read more ) Read More...
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The SQL Server team just announced the release of their latest PHP driver for SQL Server. Details about the release can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlphp/archive/2010/08/04/microsoft-drivers-for-php-for-sql-server-2-0-released.aspx . A major highlight of this release has been the introduction of PDO drivers for SQL Server. This means the PHP application developer now need not care about database but rather focus on the application code. As part of this release I was one of the fortunate ones to give the new driver a shot on the PHP applications supported by WPI. It works pretty well with Gallery2, phpBB and SilverStripe versions supported by Microsoft Web Platform installer . We also incorporated it in Microsoft Web Platform installer 2.0 as well as the latest Microsoft Web Platform Installer 3.0 Beta. This should make downloading and configuring of these drivers extremely easy. Please ensure that before downloading/configuring the new driver, you have uninstalled the old driver...
Last week my team released a super powerful update to our Web Farm Framework project aimed at dramatically simplifying the complexity of managing a Web farm (many computers running one or more Web sites). Web Farm Framework 2.0 (WFF) allows users to not only setup groups of servers and define routing rules using the built-in routing and load balancing support in ARR , but extends the management support to include many new powerful experiences, including: Automatic platform setup and provisioning of new nodes WFF integrates with Web Platform Installer and will automatically install all the required components to mirror the master node Application replication and synchronization across the Web server farm WFF integrates with Web Deploy and can automatically sync all Web site content, configuration and other dependencies across the farm Zero-downtime deployment WFF can do rolling upgrades of nodes in the farm without impacting overall service uptime Built-in health monitoring, logging...
Microsoft is announcing an important interoperability milestone: the release of the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0!! The major highlight of this release is the addition of the PDO_SQLSRV driver, which adds support for PHP Data Objects (PDO). The PHP community has signaled that PDO is the future as it removes data access complexity in PHP applications by enabling developers to focus their efforts on the applications themselves rather than database-specific code. Providing the PDO_SQLSRV...( read more ) Read More...
Today IIS team has published the final release of WinCache Extension 1.1 for PHP . This is the latest stable and production ready version of the extension. The v1.1 has all the features available in version 1.0 plus the following features. User Cache API’s can be used by PHP scripts to store PHP objects and variables in shared memory. This way PHP scripts may improve the execution speed by storing processed data in the cache and then using it in subsequent requests instead of re-creating the data...( read more ) Read More...
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