PHP ActiveX

Azure Storage: Download Blob to File

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Sample code to download an Azure blob to a file. PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$rest = new COM("Chilkat.Rest");

// Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
$bTls = 1;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
// In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
$success = $rest->Connect('chilkat.blob.core.windows.net',$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
$azAuth = new COM("Chilkat.AuthAzureStorage");
$azAuth->AccessKey = 'AZURE_ACCESS_KEY';
// The account name used here should match the 1st part of the domain passed in the call to Connect (above).
$azAuth->Account = 'chilkat';
$azAuth->Scheme = 'SharedKey';
$azAuth->Service = 'Blob';
// This causes the "x-ms-version: 2021-08-06" header to be automatically added.
$azAuth->XMsVersion = '2021-08-06';
$success = $rest->SetAuthAzureStorage($azAuth);

// Note: The application does not need to explicitly set the following
// headers: Content-Length, x-ms-date, Authorization.  These headers
// are automatically set by Chilkat.

// Setup a file stream for the download
$fileStream = new COM("Chilkat.Stream");
$fileStream->SinkFile = 'C:/temp/qa_output/starfish.jpg';

// Indicate that the call to FullRequestNoBody should send the response body
// to fileStream if the response status code is 200.
// If a non-success response status code is received, then nothing
// is streamed to the output file and the error response is returned by FullRequestNoBody.
$expectedStatus = 200;
$rest->SetResponseBodyStream($expectedStatus,1,$fileStream);

// The Azure blob container is "test", the file is "starfish.jpg"
$responseStr = $rest->fullRequestNoBody('GET','/test/starfish.jpg');
if ($rest->LastMethodSuccess != 1) {

    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    print 'response status code = ' . $rest->ResponseStatusCode . "\n";
    print 'response status text = ' . $rest->ResponseStatusText . "\n";
    print 'response header: ' . $rest->ResponseHeader . "\n";
    print 'response body (if any): ' . $responseStr . "\n";
    print '---' . "\n";
    print 'LastRequestStartLine: ' . $rest->LastRequestStartLine . "\n";
    print 'LastRequestHeader: ' . $rest->LastRequestHeader . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Success.' . "\n";

?>