Vista as my PHP Developer Workstation
Prior to joining Microsoft, I always setup my Windows laptop as a PHP/Apache development workstation. Having created my own content management system in PHP (and who hasn’t!) – having a remote development copy is critical.
Over the last few weeks, I have installed the following onto my Vista Ultimate 64-bit laptop and home workstation:
- install IIS7 web server, with the CGI support (note: a version of IIS7 supplied with Vista SP1)
- Install Thread-safe PHP from http://windows.php.net/downloads.php
- Using the IIS Manager, and module remap .php extensions to the
- Install php_sqlsrv
_ts.dll which is a part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP, modify the php.ini to launch/activate the extension [see comments below]
- The following change in the php.ini is also important in an IIS installation
; Set to 1 if running under IIS. Default is zero.
; fastcgi.impersonate = 1;
- Restart the IIS
- Reading the http://forums.iis.net/ I also updated FastCGI (fixes REQUEST_URI)
Development Environments
Everyone has their favourite development environment. I do have Notepad++ installed, and often just resort to Notepad. As I am from Microsoft, I have access to Visual Studio. Searching out for a Visual Studio plugin: I am currently trialling vs.php (Visual Studio PHP; http://www.jcxsoftware.com/vs.php)
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