Brian Swan has continued his series on linking PHP and Azure (as well as SQL Server) with a new article looking at making a sample PHP script work on the platform and connecting it to a SQL Azure Server.

I'll walk you through building a very simple Web page in the same way I did in a recent post: Getting Started with the SQL Server Driver for PHP. [...] There are some differences and limitations, which I'll highlight, but not many that I encountered.

Included in the post are a few screenshots showing you how to create the Azure SQL server, using PHP to create tables in the database and, finally, running the actual script that inserts the personal information (last name, first name, email) into the table and pulling it back out again to check the results of the insert.