PHP on Windows Azure… What’s the Scoop?

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Ever wondered what’s involved to get a PHP app to work with Windows Azure? We took a crack at explaining to PHP developers how to work with Windows Azure.

PHP on Windows Azure Quickstart Guide - Creating and Deploying PHP Projects on Windows Azure

The guide shows how to develop and test PHP code on a local development machine, and then how to deploy that code to Windows Azure. The material is intended for developers who are already using PHP with an integrated development environment (IDE) such as Eclipse, so the guide doesn't cover PHP syntax or details of working with Eclipse, but experienced PHP programmers will see that it is easy to set up Eclipse to work with Windows Azure to support web-based PHP applications.

Plus, checkout the other content in this series: https://www.msdev.com/Directory/SeriesDescription.aspx?CourseId=160

Along with the new Windows Azure Command-line Tools for PHP Developers which provides a command-line utility to PHP developers the guide is worth a look.