As a PHP developer building web applications is besides making a living a lot of fun too, especially when you can deploy your apps to any kind of environment and on any platform. In this session I take a non-standard PHP application (based on Zend Framework) and deploy it to a bare metal environment running LAMP, Windows 2008 Server with IIS7 and to cloud instances like Azure and Amazon.
The goal is to provide information on how to deploy to these various environments manual and automatic, but also to show it doesn't really matter anymore what the targeted platform is, as long the apps are written in PHP.
42. Some reminders
•- design your apps to work everywhere
use OOP abstraction layers
- use plugins
- take care of sessions!
• investigate “the other platform”
- gives you a head start over competetion
- teaches you the caveats
• “cloud” solutions are in high-demand
- see what works best for your customer