Why does php work on our IIS6 server?

[DaveJ]

This is nothing critical (we are moving to IIS7), but I just was downloading some demo code, and did not realize php could run on our IIS6 server. I created this test.php file:

<?php
Print "Hello, World!";
?>

And yep, it works, displays "Hello, World!" on the webpage.

Under Web Service Extensions in IIS, I do not see PHP installed. Where else could I look to see where it is installed?

Thanks!

[ChromeFoundry]

1. Out of the box IIS does not support PHP

but, you can have it up and running in about 5-minutes with the following instructions (IIS 7):
http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis7.php

for IIS 5 & 6 :
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis6.php

[DaveJ]

2. My post title is a little confusing

I was asking "why does it". I do not remember setting it up for PHP, but maybe I did a long time ago and just forgot. Maybe I followed these instructions. I do see a php.ini file now. Thanks.