Is phptherightway up to date?

I only ask as scanning it I see that it recommends IIS7 for production PHP on windows servers. Which I believe you could only get using an unpatched windows 2008 server?

I don't use PHP on Windows, so I wouldn't know. But looking at php.iis.net and the PHP docs, everything points at IIS7 (or later), so perhaps that's the considered stable/supported version?

I work for a shared hoster and can confirm that PHP works great on IIS6 (with FastCGI add-on installed) and IIS7+.

Yeah, but this is what it actually says:

If you need to run your production system on Windows then IIS7 will give you the most stable and best performance.

So it seems to be recommending IIS7 specifically, IIS 7.5, IIS 8 and IIS 8.5 have come out since then. So it is a bit like saying you should run this software on windows vista for best performance. IIS7 is old software.

I guess I'm asking, have the IIS team given up on PHP performance or is this recommendation really out of date.

That page is way out of date. There's not really much IIS does other than hand off requests to a new or already warmed up php-cgi.exe (via the FastCGI bits). The performance stuff is really more down to the PHP maintainers (though Microsoft have contributed, and continue to do so).

The only pain point can be when there's a new release of PHP and you have customers who want to access MS SQL databases. This is done via Microsoft's own drivers [0] (Windows only). It's not been unknown for these driver releases to lag a bit behind PHP releases, but that said I see they're on the ball now with support for 5.6.

Other than that PHP runs just as quick and as reliably on Windows as it does on our Linux shared environments (I look after both).

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=200...

while i cant comment on the validity of their advice, i can say with certainty that it is quite up to date. after all, the last change was just 2 weeks ago...

"LAST UPDATED: 2015-11-16 16:19:03 +0000" (right below their banner at the top)

Very first part of the tutorial: "Use the Current Stable Version (5.6)"

Yes, 7.0 isn't out yet (it's only been tagged, it comes out tomorrow). And for a while yet it might be a good idea to stick with 5.6