I am trying to set up microsoft azure storage acces using code igniter. It is not working

Question

I am using codeigniter for a project. I need to use azure storage. So I have used composer to get the microsoft azure php libraries. I am trying to list the buckets in a model file. I type

use WindowsAzure\Common\ServicesBuilder;

int that file. On execution, it crashes at this line. Is it a path problem. Can someone help? I also tried puting the require "vendor/autoload.php" file. It didn't help. What can I do to make it work?

Answer 1

As you are using composer, you can install CodeIgniter with one command. See CodeIgniter Composer Installer for details.

composer create-project kenjis/codeigniter-composer-installer codeigniter

Then cd into your ci project path and install Azure SDK for PHP by running the command:

composer require microsoft/windowsazure

After these done, you can use the following code to work with Azure storage in the controller.

<?php
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

use WindowsAzure\Common\ServicesBuilder;

class Welcome extends CI_Controller {

    public function index()
    {
        $account = 'yourAccoutName';
        $key = 'yourAccessKey';
        $connectionString = "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=http;AccountName=$account;AccountKey=$key";
        $blobRestProxy = ServicesBuilder::getInstance()->createBlobService($connectionString);
        // ...

        $this->load->view('welcome_message');
    }
}