Jaycent Drysdale

The January publication of MSDN Magazine carried an article titled "Enhance your apps with Integrated ASP.Net Pipleline". While the subject of the article is not something that I would normally be super excited about, I decidede to spend at least 10 minutes perusing the article while commuting to work this morning (Been riding the train past couple of weeks).  I recently installed Vista on my Notebook, and was keen to start looking into the features of IIS 7.0, which ships with microsoft's latest desktop operating system.  As it turned out, the article touched on a subject that might be useful down the road as we take a leap into the world of PHP programming at work.

Its long been common knowledge that PHP could run under IIS, but not in a way that would make it feasible to run production apps...in other words, if you configure your PHP apps in IIS 6.0/5.0, the result would be a web site that runs very slow, if nothing else, due mainly to the lack of thread safety in PHP apps. Alternately, the app could be configured to run under IIS using CGI, but CGI is a resource hog (one process per request) and results in an app that scale poorly in IIS.