Tag Archives | PHP

Connecting to SQL Azure with PHP

To start, I would like to first say that although many PHP developers usually recommend MySQL as the accompanying database for PHP, it is not difficult to interface PHP with other databases such as SQL Azure, Microsoft’s cloud-based relational database offering. PHP connects with SQL Azure in a similar manner as how it does with [...]

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Singapore PHP User Group – 3rd Anniversary Meetup

SINGAPORE PHP USER GROUP – 3rd Anniversary Meetup! Agenda in brief: 7:00pm – 8:00pm Registration & Networking Session 8:00pm – 8:30pm MS Internet Explorer 9 + HTML5 8:30pm – 9:00pm CakePHP in the Wild! – FlickEvents 9:00pm – 9:30pm Introducing Enterprise PHP Center Asia TOPICS: 1) Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 + HTML5 Presenter: Jonathan Wong, [...]

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Integrate Bing Maps with PHP

Microsoft provides Virtual Earth Integration Kit for PHP to integrate Bing Map Applition into PHP pages. Microsoft’s Virtual Earth is an example of an element of the Microsoft platform which can be consumed by and integrated into PHP web sites. The Virtual Earth API is exposed through a Javascript library making it straightforward to integrate [...]

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Microsoft Web Camp

We’ve got something really cool for you guys this June!  James Senior (Microsoft’s “Social Web Guy”) is flying to Singapore to deliver a developer camp-style event called Web Camp. What is Web Camp? Web Camp is a free 2-day web developer event intended to educate web developers about the Microsoft Web Platform, including trending topics [...]

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Bing Search Library for PHP

Today is Friday, and if you are a PHP developer with nothing to do this coming weekend, here is a new API library that you can try out over the next couple days. We are happy to announce a new Bing Search Library for PHP,available on Codeplex.com under an open source BSD license. From the project [...]

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