Running PHP and WordPress in.NET CLR and IIS Svetlin Nakov Ph.D., Computer Science WordCamp Sofia, 26-Oct-2013

 Phalanger  PHP Compiler for.NET  Phalanger Tools for Visual Studio  WP.NET  WordPress running in Phalanger and IIS  Integrating PHP and C# Code 2

PHP Compiler for.NET

 Phalanger is PHP compiler for.NET  Compiles the PHP code into.NET assemblies (MSIL code in.DLL files)  Supports Windows (.NET) and Linux (Mono)  Phalanger allows:  Run PHP code in.NET application  Combine ASP.NET / MVC and PHP code  Mix PHP with C# seamlessly  4

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Create, Compile, Run and Debug PHP Projects in VS

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Running WordPress in.NET Framework and IIS

 Installing WP.NET  Install Phalanger from  Download WP.NET from  Create a virtual directory in IIS  Configure Web.config and wp-config.php  Configure the MySQL DB / run the WP install  Optionally install IIS_URL_rewrite for IIS IIS_URL_rewrite 9

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 WP.NET performance on Windows 7 and IIS 7.5  Source:

 WordPress 3.7 is not supported in Phalanger  Works but is not stable  Phalanger developer tools for Visual Studio  Have free limited edition  E.g. the autocomplete feature is missing in the free version  costs $149 / year  The initial PHP compilation is slow  WP.NET has long startup time 12

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