Blob Class

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The Blob Component provides an easy to use interface to Microsoft's Azure Blob Service.

Class Name

InAzure_Blob

Procedural Interface

 inazure_blob_open();
 inazure_blob_close($res);
 inazure_blob_register_callback($res, $id, $function);
 inazure_blob_get_last_error($res);
 inazure_blob_get_last_error_code($res);
 inazure_blob_set($res, $id, $index, $value);
 inazure_blob_get($res, $id, $index);
 inazure_blob_do_addblock($res, $blocktype, $id);
 inazure_blob_do_addusermetadata($res, $name, $value);
 inazure_blob_do_config($res, $configurationstring);
 inazure_blob_do_copyblob($res, $blobname, $newcontainer, $newblobname);
 inazure_blob_do_createblob($res, $blobname);
 inazure_blob_do_createblock($res, $blobname, $blockid);
 inazure_blob_do_createcontainer($res);
 inazure_blob_do_createsnapshot($res, $blobname);
 inazure_blob_do_deleteblob($res, $blobname, $deleteblobaction);
 inazure_blob_do_deletecontainer($res);
 inazure_blob_do_doevents($res);
 inazure_blob_do_getblob($res, $blobname);
 inazure_blob_do_getblobmetadata($res, $blobname);
 inazure_blob_do_getcontaineracl($res);
 inazure_blob_do_getcontainermetadata($res);
 inazure_blob_do_getlink($res, $blobname, $expires);
 inazure_blob_do_interrupt($res);
 inazure_blob_do_leaseblob($res, $blobname, $leaseaction);
 inazure_blob_do_listblobs($res);
 inazure_blob_do_listblocks($res, $blobname, $blocklisttype);
 inazure_blob_do_listcontainers($res);
 inazure_blob_do_putblocklist($res, $blobname);
 inazure_blob_do_reset($res);
 inazure_blob_do_resetheaders($res);
 inazure_blob_do_setblobmetadata($res, $blobname);
 inazure_blob_do_setcontaineracl($res);
 inazure_blob_do_setcontainermetadata($res);

Remarks

The Blob service allows you to store text and binary data. The Blob service offers the following three resources: the storage account, containers, and blobs. Within your storage account, containers provide a way to organize sets of blobs.

The class allows you to create, manage, and delete Bock blobs. Block blobs are optimized for streaming, and provide a way to store large sets of data (such as files).

Please refer to Blob Service Concepts for details.

Before using the class sign up for the Azure Storage service and obtain the Account and AccessKey from Microsoft. Then you can start creating containers in your account using CreateContainer. The containers are place holders for your blobs allowing you to access them via URLs. You can then add blobs to any of your containers using CreateBlob.

There are other methods such as ListContainers, ListBlobs, GetBlob, DeleteBlob, DeleteContainer etc. that further enable you to manage your blobs.