Great timing! PHP toolkit for Astoria, err, ADO.NET Data Service

Friday, August 21 2009 - Data Access

Yesterday I blogged that my client is writing a PHP app that hits an Astoria service that I built for them. He’s using curl-lib to help him along.

Today Microsoft announced that they have a PHP toolkit specifically for interacting with ADO.NET Data Services. A new bridge for PHP developers to .NET through REST- PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services How cool is that? I’d say nice timing for me and my client! :)

You may not realize that the interop team has a bunch of content on using various MS techs with PHP, for example:

Here’s a whole webcast on PHP with MS technologies: Webcast “Connecting PHP to Microsoft Technologies” 

Now I gotta go ping my client to say “stop the presses!” this might be easier. One thing I will be looking for in the new Channel 9 video (find it in the above PHP/Astoria post) is a simple way to authenticate the client.

Thanks guys!

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#1 JC Cimetiere on 8.21.2009 at 4:32 PM

Hey Julie,

Glad to hear the timing's great for you. We're impatient to hear your feedback

JC

#2 Julie on 8.21.2009 at 4:48 PM

I've forwarded your comment to the developer who is working on the client side. Hopefully he'll be willing to rewrite some of his code. He's an eager learner and a quick study. :)

Julie

#3 Dan Soehner on 8.25.2009 at 11:30 AM

The utility works great! I ran the PHPDataSvcUtil from my local machine which created the necessary PHP proxy classes. From there, I uploaded the PHP proxy classes to a server which provided me a connection to the data service from anywhere on the web. Using the ExecuteQuery class, I was able to successfully extract and parse the data I needed. Thank you!