Want to learn PHP? PHP on Windows Training Kit Updated

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ws2008 r2 blog logo Matt Hester, Dan Stolts and I did an Interoperability Road Show not long ago.  A portion of that day was geared towards running open source software on Windows and some of the demos I used came from the PHP on Windows Training Kit.  There are some really cool demos in that kit that show you you how to install and configure PHP so that it can take advantage of SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, and Bing mapping services. In addition, you’ll find information on access control, migration, troubleshooting and other issues you might encounter.

Zach Owens is the man when it comes to this subject and I spotted his blog post at https://english.zachskylesowens.net/2010/03/25/php-on-windows-training-kit-support-for-windows-7-released/. I wanted to make sure and introduce him to you in case you have some questions.

If you want to head directly to the download, by all means jump to https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c8498c9b-a85a-4afa-90c0-593d0e4850cb.  You’ll notice this release fixes a Windows 7 install bug in case you are using that as your development or infrastructure testing environment.  I typically don’t because I am usually knee deep in Windows Server 2008 R2 via some virtualization product. Enjoy!