PHP Manager 1.1 for IIS 7 has been released today. This is an incremental release that contains all the functionality available in PHP Manager 1.0 for IIS 7 plus additional features: [...] improved detection logic for existing PHP installations, configuring date.timezone, ability to add new PHP extensions.

You can find out more about the PHP Manager for IIS7 from the CodePlex project for it and can find a complete list of changes in its changelog.

There have been some significant changes in the final release since I wrote about the first beta release a month ago. Not only have several bugs have been fixed, but new functionality has been added. Now the PHP Manager can help you validate and optimize your PHP installations on IIS. [...] You can download x86 and x64 versions of the PHP Manager here: http://phpmanager.codeplex.com/releases/view/53121.

He gives a quick run through of how the tool works by registering a PHP version to work with a certain directory. Then just select the correct "php-cgi.exe" file to use for execution and save it. The PHP Manager tool does the rest. It also tries to help you optimize your setup with a few recommendations on both PHP and IIS settings.

Not only does the PHP Manager make it a no-brainer to run different PHP versions side-by-side on IIS, it makes it easy to register PHP with IIS, configure various PHP settings, enable/disable PHP extensions, remotely manage PHP configuration via the php.ini file, and check the PHP runtime configuration and environment (i.e. see the output of phpinfo()).

Brian goes through a six step process to use this new tool to set up both PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 versions on an IIS server. It's as simple as installing the tool, registering new PHP versions and customizing the configurations. They'd love feedback on the tool so leave them comments here or report bugs here.