Last week the Interop guys at Microsoft released yet another piece of their PHP interop goodness, a toolkit for PHP developers hitting ADO.NET Data Services.

It just happened that I had *just* set up a service for a client who was consuming it with a PHP application.

I pointed him to the new toolkit and he tried it out but got stuck because he thought the fact that his web site is on a hosted server was a problem with regards to some of the instructions on the walkthrough.

Claudio (from the interop team) quickly cleared up that confusion and my client moved ahead.

Dan (client) left this comment on my earlier blog post:

“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!”

And today, he told me that he’s very happy to be using the toolkit because it is so much easier than working directly between the two.

Thank you Interoperability team for helping me make my client a happy camper!