All of you Windows-heads out there, listen up! Ever had problems getting PHP to work on your IIS server and then tried to get any kind of software to work on it, only to be greeted with messages that tell you that it has no idea what PHP is? Well, DevArticles.com is here to help you out. In their latest article, they show you how to install PHP with IIS and create a discussion forum on the install.

Honestly, I think that the Windows folks have to so easy when it comes to installing the software and getting things running, but this guide will walk you though it all, telling you what lines to comment/uncomment and what things to select on which panels. Then, they show you how to get the Access database (yes, this is all Windows, get over it) set up so that you can create a discussion forum with it.

They follow all of this up with some nice, simple code for a threaded forum where people can post their comments. All in all, it's a pretty quick, easy install compared to compiling PHP and Apache on a unix-based machine. The only difference? I'd put my money on the Unix-based any day...