PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services

Hi Innovators,

For those who favours PHP and AJAX for your approach to apps, this post is dedicated to you!

In the 2 clips below,  Jason will walk through how you can use the Project Nimbus data service in your PHP apps!

Video Highlights

• PHP ADO.NET Toolkit
  - A set of tools to help you generate the Entity classes for PHP to access the data services. | Download: http://phpdataservices.codeplex.com/ 
• Generating Entity Classes
  - Using command prompt (cmd.exe), run PHPDataSvcUtil.php using the php.exe binary
  - Usage: php PHPDataSvcUtil.php /uri:{Data Service URI}
  Eg; php php PHPDataSvcUtil.php /uri:http://lta.projectnimbus.org/ltaodataservice.svc/After which, an Entity Class will be generated in the same directory as PHPDataSvcUtil.php named LTAEntities.php
• Using Generated Entity Classes
  - include the generated class in your PHP page.
  - ‘ExecuteQuery’ function to query from Data Service. | Format: ExecuteQuery(“{Data Set Name}+[{filters}]“);

Hope you have fun coding your PHP applications with the above tools and the newly-available data sets from Project Nimbus.
Check out the below links for more information on the $filter functions, sample code and JQuery help.

Till the next post!
Hack away!

$filter functions: http://blogs.msdn.com/marcelolr/archive/2008/01/15/arithmetic-and-built-in-functions-for-filter.aspx

Sample Source Code: http://cid-d24f60570e158b5f.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/phpSample.zip

JQuery Javascript Framework: http://www.jquery.com