Connect to azure-blob through azure-website with php - php

Question

I have set up an windows azure website (php), and I want to connect to the azure storage (blob) environment. I walked through the How to use the Blob service from PHP tutorial, but that only mentions the case when the website is stored localy.
I tried to set up a few cases, but i'm constantly getting a http 500 error.
<?php
require_once 'WindowsAzure/WindowsAzure.php';
use WindowsAzure\Common\ServicesBuilder;
use WindowsAzure\Common\ServiceException;
//$connectionString = "\WindowsAzure\Blob\Internal\IBlob";
// Create blob REST proxy.
$blobRestProxy = ServicesBuilder::getInstance()->createBlobService($connectionString); // the code gets stuck at this line, result is a HTTP 500 error
$content = fopen("C:\Users\Public\Pictures\Sample%20Pictures\Woestijn.jpg", "r");
$blob_name = "newBlob";
try {
//Upload blob
$blobRestProxy->createBlockBlob("default", $blob_name, $content);
}
catch(ServiceException $e){
// Handle exception based on error codes and messages.
// Error codes and messages are here:
// http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dd179439.aspx
$code = $e->getCode();
$error_message = $e->getMessage();
echo $code.": ".$error_message."<br />";
}?>
Is there anyone who had a similar problem and managed to figure it out?
EDIT:
I now narrowed down the error search. I went into the ServicesBuilder.php file, and commented out line by line, until the page stopped to work. The line it went wrong at is $httpClient, as shown below:
public function createBlobService($connectionString)
{
$settings = StorageServiceSettings::createFromConnectionString(
$connectionString
);
$httpClient = $this->httpClient();
$serializer = $this->serializer();
$uri = Utilities::tryAddUrlScheme(
$settings->getBlobEndpointUri()
);

Answer 1

From what I'm seeing you're filling up the $connectionString variable with this value: "\WindowsAzure\Blob\Internal\IBlob" (even though it's commented - so probably you're passing it from somewhere else). If that's the case you'll need to change it.
The connection string should be a reference to your storage account containing the protocol, the name of the account and the key (you can find the name and the key in the portal):
$connectionString = "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=jeroensaccount;AccountKey=fjmezfjmIOFJEZIOPAFJAZOPIFJAIMO"