Azure PHP SDK?

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Azure PHP SDK?

VNA-Developer 20

Hi,

We are publishers of an application in the Azure Marketplace and we need to automatically verify that the usage of our application in Azure complies with our software licensing.

Our application (running in Azure) can automatically register itself on our external services (hosted on our private servers). During its registration, it transmits the (Azure) Subscriber Id, VM Id and the Plan ID/name (of our application) to our external services.

Ideally we are looking for a PHP SDK API that we can use on our external services to perform the job. This is perfectly possible with AWS and we are looking for something similar in Azure.

Any suggestion or help would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

VNA

SAMITSARKAR_MSFT 791 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-11-21T11:48:45.7733333+00:00

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & I hope you are doing well.

The Microsoft Azure SDK for PHP used to provide PHP client libraries that make it easy to access Microsoft Azure tables, blobs, queues, service bus (queues and topics), service runtime, and service management APIs.

However, as of February 2021, the Azure SDK for PHP has entered a retirement phase and is no longer officially supported by Microsoft Please Refer: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-php . If you prefer to work in PHP, you can directly call the Azure REST API in PHP. Please Refer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/ .

For Azure Storage services (blobs, tables, queues, and files), there is a separate PHP client library. If you were using the Azure SDK for PHP to access Azure Storage Service, it is recommended to migrate to this SDK Please Refer https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-php.

For building PHP apps with Microsoft Graph, you can refer to the tutorial provided by Microsoft Refer . This tutorial teaches you how to build a PHP console app that uses the Microsoft Graph API to access data on behalf of a user. Please Refer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/tutorials/php?tabs=aad

Hope this helps you.
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SAMITSARKAR_MSFT 791 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-11-21T11:48:45.7733333+00:00

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & I hope you are doing well.

The Microsoft Azure SDK for PHP used to provide PHP client libraries that make it easy to access Microsoft Azure tables, blobs, queues, service bus (queues and topics), service runtime, and service management APIs.

However, as of February 2021, the Azure SDK for PHP has entered a retirement phase and is no longer officially supported by Microsoft Please Refer: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-php . If you prefer to work in PHP, you can directly call the Azure REST API in PHP. Please Refer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/ .

For Azure Storage services (blobs, tables, queues, and files), there is a separate PHP client library. If you were using the Azure SDK for PHP to access Azure Storage Service, it is recommended to migrate to this SDK Please Refer https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-php.

For building PHP apps with Microsoft Graph, you can refer to the tutorial provided by Microsoft Refer . This tutorial teaches you how to build a PHP console app that uses the Microsoft Graph API to access data on behalf of a user. Please Refer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/tutorials/php?tabs=aad

Hope this helps you.
Thanks.

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Hello Samit,

Thank you for your answer.

Azure REST API sounds good and we can perfectly use it in our PHP code.

However we have some questions:

We have an account on the "Microsoft Partner Center" portal that we use to publish our offers. That's not a classical Azure account and we don't use that account to create/manage Azure ressources (but only to publish our offers in the Marketplace).

Logically, only the publisher of an offer should be able to verify if a machine instance is running his applications. Hence, any client that uses that REST API should be authenticated as the publisher. Isn't it?

Do you think that we can use that REST API with our publisher account? If so, we can't find any option on the "Microsoft Partner Center" that allows us to create users and/or credentials (access and secret access keys) to use for authentication part.

Any thoughts?

Best Regards,

VNA

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