Interoperability Bridges and Labs Project Feed

PHP SDK for Windows Azure

2010-07-20T11:52:46Z

Windows Azure SDK for PHP

Enables PHP developers to easily leverage Windows Azure storage service in their web applications

Project Detail:

The Windows Azure SDK for PHP enables PHP developers to take advantage of the Microsoft Cloud Services Platform -Windows Azure. This includes support for Manageability instrumentation, logging, PHP classes for Azure Blobs, tables and queries, as well as helper classes for HTTP transport, AuhN/AuthZ, REST, and error management.

Technologies:

PHP;
Windows Azure

Apache Stonehenge

2010-07-16T15:28:26Z

Apache Stonehenge

Demonstrates practical SOA interoperability across platforms (.NET, PHP, Java) with Apache open source projects using Web Services standards

Project Detail:

The Apache Stonehenge project is an Apache Incubator project intended to build a set of example applications for SOA that spans languages and platforms, demonstrates best practices, and interoperability. This project consists of a set of sample applications that demonstrate seamless interoperability across multiple underlying platform technologies by using currently defined W3C and OASIS standard protocols. It illustrates and develops best practices for interoperable applications that communicate via distributed protocols, demonstrates interoperability between platforms, and provides sample code upon which SOA developers can build.

Technologies:

WS-*; Web Services; PHP; Java;
.NET Framework

Bing Search Library for PHP

2010-06-16T21:29:01Z

Bing Search Library for PHP

Enables PHP developers to easily use Microsoft Bing search engine API to submit queries to and retrieve results from the Bing Engine

Project Detail:

The Bing Search Library for PHP is a wrapper on top of the Bing API, which provides a simple way to submit queries to and retrieve results from the Bing Engine. There are many ways to take advantage of the Bing API, since the API offers a choice of protocols from JSON, plain XML, to SOAP. This library is taking a different approach than the Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP project which focused on helping PHP developers use Microsoft Bing search engine to manage the 404 error (Page Not Found) on their web sites.

Technologies:

PHP;
Bing

Windows Azure Storage for WordPress

2010-06-16T21:28:07Z

Windows Azure Storage for WordPress

Enables developers running their own instance of WordPress to take advantage of the Windows Azure Storage services, including the Content Delivery Network (CDN) feature.

Project Detail:

The Windows Azure Storage plugin for WordPress allows developers running their own instance of WordPress to take advantage of the Windows Azure Storage services, including the Content Delivery Network (CDN) feature. It provides a consistent storage mechanism for WordPress Media in a scale-out architecture where the individual web servers don't share a disk. Note that this scenario goes beyond WordPress and could also be very compelling any other web application where there's a need to load balance across a number of web servers without shared disk.

The plugin is a regular WordPress plugin developed in PHP, and can be deployed on any WordPress instance. The plugin uses the Windows Azure SDK for PHP to handle the interactions with Windows Azure.

Technologies:

PHP; WordPress;
Windows Azure

Bing 404 for WordPress

2010-06-16T21:27:28Z

Bing 404 for WordPress

Enables WordPress developers to easily manage the "404/Page not found" error by leveraging the Bing search engine

Project Detail:

Instead of sending the default WordPress "404/Page not found" error page to a user who gets the wrong page URL on your site, the Bing404 for WordPress plugin lets WordPress developers use the Bing search engine to easily manage the "404/Page not found".
URLs are often meaningful because they include important keywords. The Bing404 for WordPress plugin extracts those keywords from the URL, pass them on to Bing API to find the matching pages, and display suggestions to the user.
The Bing404 for WordPress plugin uses the Bing Search Library for PHP project (a wrapper on top of the Bing API, which provides a simple way to submit queries to and retrieve results from the Bing Engine).

Technologies:

PHP; WordPress;
Bing

Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP

2010-06-09T14:04:25Z

Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP

Enables PHP developers to easily use Microsoft Bing search engine API to manage the 404 (Page Not Found) Error on their web sites

Project Detail:

The Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP is a customizable PHP application that replaces the default error page on Microsoft IIS or Apache web servers with Bing search results that are based on keywords that have been derived from the URL requested by the user. The toolkit is available as an open source project and is released under the Microsoft Public License.

Update June 01, 2010: Please note that this Toolkit has been superceded by the Bing Search Library for PHP

Technologies:

PHP;
Bing

Windows Azure Command-line Tools for PHP

2010-06-01T18:41:17Z

Windows Azure Command-line Tools for PHP

Enable PHP developers to easily package and deploy applications to Windows Azure using a simple command-line tool

Project Detail:

The Windows Azure Command-line Tools for PHP enable developers to easily package and deploy PHP applications to Windows Azure using a simple command-line tool. The tools allow creating new applications or converting existing PHP applications to Windows Azure and by creating the deployment package (.cspkg) and Configuration file (.cscfg).

Technologies:

PHP;
Windows Azure

AppFabric SDK for PHP

2010-05-26T23:22:38Z

AppFabric SDK for PHP

AppFabric SDK for PHP Developers is an open source software development kit (SDK) that helps PHP programs communicate with Windows Azure platform AppFabric using RESTful APIs.

Project Detail:

AppFabric SDK for PHP Developers is an open source software development kit (SDK) that helps PHP programs communicate with Windows Azure platform AppFabric using RESTful APIs.
As part of the Windows Azure platform, the AppFabric includes the Service Bus and Access Control services. They are both web-based services that provide infrastructure in the cloud to connect applications. The Service Bus acts as an intermediary between applications and services. For example, developers can use it to bridge on-premise and off-premise applications or create composite applications. The Access Control service enables external users to connect to cloud resources using their external identities.

Technologies:

PHP,
Window Azure

Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse

2010-05-26T23:19:19Z

Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse

Provide PHP developers using Eclipse with tools to create and deploy web applications targeting Windows Azure.

Project Detail:

The Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse plug-in offers PHP developers a series of wizards and utilities allowing to write, debug, configure, and deploy PHP applications to Windows Azure. The plug-in bundles the existing Windows Azure SDK for PHP into the Eclipse PHP project. The plug-in includes a Window Azure storage explorer that allows developers to browse data contained into the Windows Azure tables, blobs, or queues.

Technologies:

Eclipse;PHP;
Windows Azure

SQL Server Reporting Services SDK for PHP

2010-05-11T15:18:03Z

SQL Server Reporting Services SDK for PHP

Enable PHP developers to add business intelligence and reporting features to web applications using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

Project Detail:

This SDK enables PHP applications to simply utilize SQL Server Reporting Services, Microsoft's Reporting and Business Intelligence solution. These scenarios can be done using the free SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services edition.
The SDK offers a simple Aplication Programming Interface (API) to interoperate with SQL Server Reporting Services. The API provides simple methods to perform the most common operations: list available reports within a PHP applications, provide custom parameters from a PHP web form, manage the rendering of the reports within a PHP application.

Technologies:

PHP;
SQL Server Reporting Services

OData SDK for PHP

2010-03-29T17:01:04Z

OData SDK for PHP

Enables PHP developers to use the Open Data (OData) protocol specification to interoperate with .NET through REST

Project Detail:

The ODtata SDK for PHP (formerly called Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET/WCF Data Services) makes it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of the Open Data (OData) protocol, initially developed by Microsoft with WCF Data Services, a set of features that are part of the .NET Framework. WCF Data Services offer a simple way to expose any sort of data in a RESTful way and is also available with Window Azure and many other technologies (see www.odata.org for a full list).
At design time, the SDK lets you generate proxy classes based on the metadata exposed by the OData Services. At run time, your code uses the PHP proxy classes to easily program against the OData Service using a set of local PHP classes that represent the structure of the remote data. Using RESTful services over HTTP, the communication between the PHP application and OData Services is taken care of by the PHP proxy classes and the Toolkit libraries.

Technologies:

PHP; OData; REST
.NET Framework; WCF Data Services; Windows Azure

PHP Virtual Earth Tool Kit

2010-02-23T13:12:03Z

Toolkit for PHP with Virtual Earth (Bing Maps)

Enables PHP developers to easily add Microsoft Virtual Earth (Bing Maps) maps to their web applications

Project Detail:

This project demonstrates how PHP applications can take advantage of Microsoft's Virtual Earth. The Virtual Earth API is exposed through a Javascript library making it straightforward to integrate into any web based application. The project integrates Microsoft's Virtual Earth Web Service and API to embed a map into a PHP application. Web site users can add their location to the map, displaying a pin for every user location stored in the database. The solution package includes the code needed to embed a Virtual Earth map in a PHP web page. Step by step instructions are included to help PHP developers set up a database and appropriate table to store user submitted locations. Separate instructions are provided for SQL Express 2005/2008 and MySQL users.

Technologies:

PHP;
Microsoft Virtual Earth

PHP SQL CRUD Application Wizard

2010-02-23T13:10:19Z

SQL CRUD Application Wizard for PHP

Enables PHP developers to easily build basic database operations for SQL Server

Project Detail:

This project demonstrates how PHP develpers can integrate access and manipulation of data stored in SQL Server Databases in their applications. The result is a code generator that creates a simple "Create, Read, Update, Delete" (CRUD) PHP application from a Microsoft SQL Server database table. This application was built using .Net, and supports Data Navigation, paging, sorting, and UI customization with simple CSS.

Technologies:

PHP;
SQL Server

PHP Samples for Silverlight

2010-02-23T13:07:29Z

Samples for PHP with Silverlight

Enables PHP developers to easily add Silverlight to their web applications

Project Detail:

The overall goal of this project is to demonstrate how Silverlight can be easily integrated into PHP web sites. The code for this project includes sample HTML markup and PHP scripts to create HTML markup used to embed Silverlight content. The tutorial demonstrates how to integrate existing Silverlight content and streaming Silverlight content into a PHP web page. It also contains step by step instructions on how to use Microsoft's Expression Web 2 to create PHP pages, embed a Silverlight control, and deploy it to an existing site. These examples include a Silverlight control created using Microsoft's Expression Blend.

Technologies:

PHP;
Silverlight; Expression Blend

PHP Samples for Webslices & Accelerators

2010-02-23T13:02:16Z

Samples for PHP with Webslices & Accelerators

Enables PHP developers to easily add IE 8 Webslices & Accelerator features in their web applications

Project Detail:

This project demonstrates how PHP applications can take advantage of the web slices and accelerators introduced with Internet Explorer 8. Web slices are portions of a web page to which a user can subscribe. The tutorial provides instructions and demonstrations for creating and enabling Internet Explorer 8 web slices on pages within a PHP site. In addition it provides two accelerators: an accelerator which can be used to blog content with Wordpress and an accelerator to quickly send an email via your Facebook inbox. In order to view the web slices and accelerators, you must be using Internet Explorer 8. All code can be downloaded as a solution package, which contains sample HTML markup and PHP scripts to create web slices. Additionally, it includes sample accelerators for the Wordpress, Wikimedia, and Facebook platforms.

Technologies:

PHP;
Internet Explorer 8; Web Slices; Accelerators

Information Card for PHP

2010-02-23T12:53:58Z

Information Cards for PHP

Enables Php developers to support information cards for their web sites using standards WS-* protocols

Project Detail:

This project is an on-going investment from Microsoft to show Interoperability in the Identity space with Information Cards using WS-* protocols. This open source project will help Web Developers support information cards, the primary mechanism for representing user identities in the identity metasystem. Similar projects exist for Java, Ruby on Rails, and C.

Technologies:

PHP; SAML;
Windows Cardspace