Windows Azure SDK for PHP

1. What is Windows Azure SDK for PHP Developers?

As part of Microsoft’s commitment to Interoperability, this open source project is an effort bridge PHP developers to Windows Azure. PHPAzure is an open source project to provide software development kit for Windows Azure and Windows Azure Storage – Blobs, Tables & Queues

• Overview
  • Enables PHP developers to take advantage of the Microsoft Cloud Services Platform – Windows Azure.
  • Provides consistent programming model for Windows Azure Storage (Blobs, Tables & Queues)
• Features
  • PHP classes for Windows Azure Blobs, Tables & Queues (for CRUD operations)
  • Helper Classes for HTTP transport, AuthN/AuthZ, REST & Error Management
  • Manageability, Instrumentation & Logging support
  • Support for storing PHP sessions in Azure Table Storage

2. Project contributors

Windows Azure SDK for PHP is an open source collaboration project driven by RealDolmen and Microsoft, based on a blog post of Maarten Balliauw.


The RealDolmen Microsoft Competence Centre is occupied with the supply of made-to-measure professional Microsoft solutions to customers and is the largest Microsoft integrator in Belgium. RealDolmen has over 10 years of experience of complete implementation of Microsoft projects in terms of strategy, architecture, implementation, integration of systems, maintenance, training as well as support.


Microsoft is the project sponsor and provides Architectural & Technical Guidance on its Windows Azure platform.

3. What is Windows Azure?

Windows Azure is the name for Microsoft’s Software + Services platform, an operating system in the cloud providing services for hosting, management, scalable storage with support for simple blobs, tables, and queues, as well as a management infrastructure for provisioning and geo-distribution of cloud-based services, and a development platform for the Azure Services layer.

How does the Windows Azure SDK for PHP fit in?

Refer the Architecture page.

Logical architecture

Windows Azure SDK for PHP provides access to Windows Azure's storage, computation and management interfaces by abstracting the REST/XML interface Windows Azure provides into a simple PHP API.

Deployment scenarios

An application built using Windows Azure SDK for PHP can access Windows Azure's features, no matter if it is hosted on the Windows Azure platform or on an in-premise web server.

Resources

• Webcasts, videos, virtual labs and podcasts - http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/azure.aspx
• Azure training kit (including PHP samples) - http://www.microsoft.com/azure/trainingkit.mspx
• Other Azure SDK's http://www.microsoft.com/azure/sdk.mspx
• How do I.... videos - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dd439432.aspx
• PHP on Windows Training Kit - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/det ··· 0e4850cb