Partuza is an example of an OpenSocial site using Shindig. It is based on PHP. The following describes my experience getting Partuza running under IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista. For a guide getting Partuza running using Apache, please refer here. The article assumes that you have read the previous article on running Shindig PHP on IIS and have a running IIS that supports PHP applications. Becaus... [More]

The following describes my experience getting Shindig PHP to run on Windows Vista. The IIS mentioned here onwards is IIS 7.0. Also, this article assumes that you have downloaded a copy of Shindig PHP (snapshot 1.1) here or via the SVN repository at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shindig/trunk/.  To run Shindig PHP under IIS, you will first need to install PHP on your PC and ... [More]

Not too long ago, I created a project on codeplex to port Wordpress over to ASP .NET. Luckily, due to time constraints, the project was not attempted. Also, recent developments have made this project unnecessary. I found out that IIS now supports PHP via FastCGI. This feature and the use of MySQL now allows you to basically run most if not all PHP applications on a windows platform. MySQL can be d... [More]

When it comes to PHP, it's a different kind of magical beast compared to strongly-typed programming languages like C#. PHP is more like javascript than C#. While porting partuza to .NET, I thought I could live without needing to debug through PHP. In the end, I decided, it probably will be easier if I could debug it. Initially, I tried PHPEclipse, which is a plugin for Eclipse. However... [More]