On Wednesday Microsoft announced the release of PHP SDK for Windows Azure. It’s a set of classes providing access to Azure platform, that supports cloud storage, cloud computing, queue service, and management of the virtual boxes you’re renting from Azure. The PHP client, that comes complete with a set of PHPUnit tests, is available for checkout here. A quick look around Codeplex site shows a few other PHP projects that are either developed by Microsoft, or commissioned/funded by them and developed by somebody else:
- Silverlight PHP – PHP access to Silverlight objects. The download, however, is a Visual Studio solution.
- PHP Site Generator – a simple CRUD form builder. Helps if you’ve got a a table (one on SQL Server, looks like) an need to give some users access to create, retrieve, update, and delete the data – the site generator builds out all those forms for you.
- PHP client for Virtual Earth – supports both SQL Server and MySQL for backend.
- Web Slices and Accelerator for IE 8 – more a set of tutorials in PHP than a single complete client solution, but some pretty basic stuff, for example, an IE-compatible slice that pulls Facebook status.
