Announcing PHP SDK for Windows Azure… and much more!
I’ve just arrived at TechEd India where I’m going to talk about interoperability in my sessions “Build Mission Critical Applications on the Microsoft Platform Using Eclipse, Java & Ruby” and “Developing PHP Applications using Microsoft Software & Services”. In addition to presenting the on-going activities that Microsoft is driving to strengthen interoperability, I’m excited to be able to demo a new set of interoperability projects related to PHP. I’m going to give you a glimpse of these projects in this post for those that are unable to join us in India.
The first PHP interoperability bridge that we’re announcing is the PHP SDK for Windows Azure. This SDK is the result of an open source development project by RealDolmen, for which Microsoft is providing funding. I’d like to personally thank Maarten Balliauw of RealDolmen for his work on the project. The goal of the SDK is to provide high-level abstractions that enable PHP developers to interoperate readily with Windows Azure.
Keep in mind that the Azure Services Platform has been designed to be open, standards-based and interoperable.
The Azure Services Platform’s support for XML, REST and SOAP standards means that any of the Azure services can be called from other platforms and programming languages. To facilitate the interoperability between the Azure Services Platform and non-Microsoft languages and technologies, Microsoft has provided funding for two other SDK projects that support 3rd party programming languages: Java SDK for Microsoft .NET Services and Ruby SDK for Microsoft .NET Services
The PHP SDK for Windows Azure focuses on REST and provides the following core features:
|
|
Windows Azure is the foundation of the Azure Services Platform and it includes the services hosting environment for the platform. At MIX 2009, Microsoft announced the inclusion of FastCGI in Windows Azure’s hosting environment. The FastCGI protocol enables developers to run web applications on Windows Azure that were written using 3rd party programming languages including PHP. This opens up new options for PHP developers to deploy their applications. For example, in the context of the PHP SDK for Windows Azure you have the 2 following options for deploying your PHP web applications:
A Technology Preview of the PHP SDK for Windows Azure will be released by RealDolmen under a “BSD” license. This version of the SDK supports interoperability with Windows Azure blog storage. A functionally complete version of the SDK – additionally supporting tables and queues - is expected to be available from the download project site by the fall of 2009. Of course you're welcomed to try out and provide suggestions & feedback to the project by joining the user forum.
The second piece of announcement, I’m excited to make is the launch of a series of third party projects that offer samples and toolkit that enable PHP developers to easily include in their web applications the following Microsoft technologies:
Projects |
Features for PHP developers |
Include Silverlight controls in PHP web applications |
|
Include IE Webslices & Accelerators in PHP web applications |
|
Automatically generated a simple “Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD)” PHP application from a table in SQL Server |
|
Include Microsoft Virtual Earth maps in PHP web applications |
Microsoft is providing funding for a series of projects, of which this first batch have been developed by Accenture. The third party projects are available on Codeplex.com under a BSD license:
- http://silverlightphp.codeplex.com/,
- http://webslicesandaccelphp.codeplex.com/,
- http://sqlcrudphpwizard.codeplex.com/,
- http://virtualearthphpkit.codeplex.com/
More to come; stay tuned and once again I encourage you to take a look. Feedback is very welcomed.
Vijay Rajagopalan, Principal Architect, Microsoft Corp.
Comments
Anonymous
May 13, 2009
PingBack from http://microsoft-sharepoint.simplynetdev.com/announcing-php-sdk-for-windows-azure%e2%80%a6-and-much-more/Anonymous
May 13, 2009
Vijay Rajagopalan, a Principal Architect here at Microsoft, is at TechEd India, where he will demo laterAnonymous
May 13, 2009
Vijay Rajagopalan, a Principal Architect here at Microsoft, is at TechEd India, where he will demo laterAnonymous
May 13, 2009
History is not often recognized until people much later see the impact of a small series of events. ThisAnonymous
May 13, 2009
Con este nuevo SDK, los desarrolladores PHP podrán desarrollar aplicaciones PHP que aprovechan al máximoAnonymous
May 13, 2009
[Update 13 Maggio 2009] Il 15- 16 Maggio a Verona si svolgerà il phpDay 2009 , evento dedicato a chiAnonymous
May 14, 2009
The comment has been removedAnonymous
May 14, 2009
Vijay at work at TechEd India :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/baxiabhishek/3530869180/in/photostream/Anonymous
May 14, 2009
“ We just posted the announcement: Announcing PHP SDK for Windows Azure… and much more! In short we announcedAnonymous
May 14, 2009
Gute Nachrichten für PHP-Entwickler: Nun ist auch ein Software Development Kit (SDK) für PHP verfügbar.Anonymous
May 14, 2009
Microsoft continues to enhance the interoperability of the Azure Service Platform with the announcementAnonymous
May 14, 2009
The reason why Free Software or Open Source came in first place was not just an alternative to proprietary technologies, but to offer complete freedom to users and developers. Microsoft has learned nothing yet. Why would I run PHP on Windows? Its more like building a castle in a foundation which is quite unknown. I suggest Microsoft should open source its products before it parish. Don't be an evil Microsoft, you are becoming the most hated company in the world. Wake up and stop these stupid gimmicks. NeilAnonymous
May 14, 2009
As part of Microsoft’s commitment to Interoperability, this open source project is an effort bridge PHPAnonymous
May 14, 2009
Hey busy day blogging today about the Microsoft Web Platform today!!!   Check this out, a new SDKAnonymous
May 14, 2009
Sin duda, hablar de Windows Azure y de la plataforma de servicios Azure es hablar no sólo de aplicacionesAnonymous
May 14, 2009
Congrats guys! Next step: The Java supports! ;)Anonymous
May 14, 2009
Check it out - http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/05/13/announcing-php-sdk-for-windows-azure-and-much-more.aspAnonymous
May 14, 2009
The comment has been removedAnonymous
May 14, 2009
As part of Microsoft’s commitment to Interoperability, this open source project is an effort to bridgeAnonymous
May 15, 2009
To Neil - in support to JC Plus, I believe you have to think in the case you’re trying to sell a business solution to a customer that is already using Microsoft technologies. What are you going to do if you develop in PHP but doesn't know how to interoperate. You will lose the business! MONEY This hate you promote does not benefit the customer at all. I do suggest you open your mind to interoperability if you pretend to stay in business, unless you don't need money to survive. The investment Microsoft is doing in interoperability to provide CHOICE is amazing for businesses. They don’t have to go only one way. They have the freedom to chose what’s best for each business scenario. One that does not choose to embrace this move, in my opinion is a person w/o vision and will eventually lose the battle. Either embrace interoperability or prepare yourself to chose another profession. :-) Take care, JP p.s. My thoughts above.Anonymous
May 15, 2009
Continuando o foco em interoperabilidade, a Microsoft recentemente lançou o SDK do PHP para o WindowsAnonymous
May 15, 2009
Hello Vijay, I attended your session at TechEd and it was the best session I had attended at Teched. Congratultaions. It was a honest & brilliant presentation. Thanks for talking to us after the session.Anonymous
May 15, 2009
Nice presentation on PHP Sdk for Azure today Vijay. Really enjoyed your sessionAnonymous
May 16, 2009
Thanks for the presentation. As a hosting provider ISV, It was extremely to understand Microsoft's direction and particularly from openness standpoint. PHP SDK for Azure is in the right direction. I will check back in the future for the updated version? Can I asssume, you will PHP SDK for SQL Servervices on Azure as well when it is available? Agrain, Reallly great presentations and demos.Anonymous
May 17, 2009
eek! If you missed it last week, there is a new PHP SDK for Windows Azure ! For more background on PHPAnonymous
May 17, 2009
This is excellent news. Where can I get the presentation of Vijay?Anonymous
May 23, 2009
I attended your session and greatly benefited. In my opinion, it was one of the best sessions at TechEd. Can you please update on the timeline of the Azure SDK?Anonymous
May 27, 2009
Sandeep, thanks for your feedback on Vijay's session. We are glad you liked it. We expect to have another CTP of the Azure PHP SDK by July 31 2009 followed by a feature complete drop in late August 2009. Please see the "Roadmap" section of the project's home page on codeplex for more details. http://phpazure.codeplex.com/ Thanks.Anonymous
August 14, 2009
I'm a PHP developer and I enjoy working on the open source scripting language for most part. This is good news! And I'm even more excited that the Microsoft Interoperability Team has now made available PHP Toolkit for Bing Maps Web Service, though not officially supported by the product group.