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Introduction

Wether you are enjoying the incredible Azure ecosystem, need to deploy on Windows due to business requirements or you have any other reason to deploy on Windows, the basic tool to run Drupal 8 on Windows with reasonable performance - the WIncache module - is already available.

Wincache Drupal

Entity references in Drupal is the mechanism used to do some "proper" (sorry for the quotes but what you can achieve with Drupal is years behind a real ORM such as the Entity Framework in terms of usability, reliability, flexibility and overal quality) data modeling without having to write everything from scratch including queries, widgets and storage. 

The COM class is part of the COM_DOTNET extension that is part of the PHP core.

COM class allows you to instantiate an OLE compatible COM object and call its methods and access its properties. You can use this technique to call .Net Framework assemblies or COM components such as Word, Excel and other Microsoft Office tools.

In this guided example you will learn how to call the Microsoft Word interop component from PHP, but you can use this same procedure with any .Net or COM type on your system.

We were not able to find a compiled version of the Twig PHP C extension for windows so we compiled them from PHP 5.6 NTS. Download here.

If you need a binary for another platform or PHP version, contact us.

Are you running PHP on Windows or Azure? Consume the .Net framework from PHP thanks to NetPhp.

Drupal 8 is using some of the PHP language features that make PHP a "more or less decent" programming language and one of them is Autoloading. But because autoloading in PHP leaves the real autoloading job to userland code this can easily have very nasty performance implications.

If you want to use Autoloading now in Drupal 7 check out the extremely useful XAutoload module.

Drupal relies on pluggable cache backends to store cache data such as Memcache, Wincache, Database, etc. The default storage backend is the Database, but Drupal being a very cache intensive application (even more in Drupal 8) you want to get better performance by using faster backends that will yield lower latency and scale better.

Moving caching away from the database is done by replacing the caching services by ones that do not rely on the database. You define the services in your services.yml file and the binaries routing in settings.php:

Services.yml

This is the User Guide for the 2.x series of the NetPhp component.

• What is NetPhp
• Deploying the NetPhp binary
• Adding the NetPhp classes to your project
• Preparing the NetPhp runtime
• Consuming .Net binaries on the fly
  • Instantiating Objects
  • Using Properties
  • Calling Methods

In this article you will learn how to manipulate Excel files from PHP using the OpenXML specification and the SpreadsheetLight library.

OpenXML is an open source specification that is used to build all Office 2007 and beyond document formats including Word and Excel. SpreadsheetLight builds on top of the standard OpenXML library to make Excel manipulation a piece of cake.