Using Microsoft Azure with codeigniter

Hi, we doing my side projects with codeingiter and some of our clients use microsoft azure, we thought why not help the community of codeigniters :)

note this is the very intial phase of libraries, don't expect them to be perfect, we might tweak them in future

Get started

1. download codeigniter's latest version

2. unzip it and do the usual

3. open application/libary and create one file name composer.json and paste the content of this composer.json

4. open terminal navigate to your codeingiter's directory and run composer install make sure you have composer in your system

we have done all this hard work for you, if you want readymade stuff, you can simply download / clone this repo :)

Using Library

1. you may autoload this library in codeigniter or you may load mannually on every controller, not we are not autoloading but if you wish please open application/config/autoload.php

/*
| -------------------------------------------------------------------
|  Auto-load Libraries
| -------------------------------------------------------------------
| These are the classes located in system/libraries/ or your
| application/libraries/ directory, with the addition of the
| 'database' library, which is somewhat of a special case.
|
| Prototype:
|
|	$autoload['libraries'] = array('database', 'email', 'session');
|
| You can also supply an alternative library name to be assigned
| in the controller:
|
|	$autoload['libraries'] = array('user_agent' => 'ua');
*/
$autoload['libraries'] = array('azurecdn');

creating container

$this->azurecdn->create_container("container-name");
// will return true or false
// valid container name https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd135715.aspx

uploading blob / file

$blob_mime_type = $this->upload->data()['file_type']; // mime type of uploaded file on server
$set_blob_file_name = "my_first_college_day.jpg" // set the name of file
// for now, this file must be in server
$full_file_path = "http://mydomain.com/uploaded_images/my_first_college_day.jpg";
$blob_container = "college-uploads";
$this->azurecdn->upload_blob($full_file_path, $blob_file_name, $blob_container, $blob_mime_type);

that's it

this is still an early version, please help us or be patient :)

azure php sdk github repos

1. https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-php

2. https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-php