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Azure File Service: List Shares

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Sample code to list the file shares in an Azure storage account.

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<?php

$success = 0;

// Azure File Service Example: List all the file shares in a storage account.
// See also: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/list-shares

// 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 = $rest->Connect('chilkat.file.core.windows.net',$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success == 0) {
    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 = 'File';
// 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: x-ms-date, Authorization.  These headers
// are automatically set by Chilkat.

// Send the GET request to list the shares.
$responseStr = $rest->fullRequestNoBody('GET','/?comp=list');
if ($rest->LastMethodSuccess == 0) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 200 response status code,
// with an XML response body.

if ($rest->ResponseStatusCode != 200) {
    // 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;
}

// Load the XML response for parsing.
// An example of the response XML is shown below.
$xml = new COM("Chilkat.Xml");
$success = $xml->LoadXml($responseStr);

print $xml->getXml() . "\n";

// Here's a sample response:

// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
// <EnumerationResults ServiceEndpoint="https://chilkat.file.core.windows.net/">
//     <Shares>
//         <Share>
//             <Name>beardie</Name>
//             <Properties>
//                 <Last-Modified>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:24:57 GMT</Last-Modified>
//                 <Etag>"0x8D4BCD9CBD872E5"</Etag>
//                 <Quota>5120</Quota>
//             </Properties>
//         </Share>
//         <Share>
//             <Name>pip</Name>
//             <Properties>
//                 <Last-Modified>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:24:44 GMT</Last-Modified>
//                 <Etag>"0x8D4BCD9C3D823D1"</Etag>
//                 <Quota>5120</Quota>
//             </Properties>
//         </Share>
//     </Shares>
//     <NextMarker />
// </EnumerationResults>

// Let's iterate over the file shares
$lastMod = new COM("Chilkat.CkDateTime");

$numShares = $xml->NumChildrenAt('Shares');
$i = 0;
$dt = new COM("Chilkat.DtObj");
while ($i < $numShares) {
    print '---- Share ' . $i . ' ----' . "\n";
    $xml->I = $i;
    print 'Name: ' . $xml->getChildContent('Shares|Share[i]|Name') . "\n";
    $lastMod->SetFromRfc822($xml->getChildContent('Shares|Share[i]|Properties|Last-Modified'));
    $lastMod->ToDtObj(1,$dt);

    print 'Last-Modified YMD: ' . $dt->Year . ',' . $dt->Month . ',' . $dt->Day . "\n";
    $i = $i + 1;
}

// Output for the above loop:

// ---- Share 0 ----
// Name: beardie
// Last-Modified YMD: 2017,6,26
// ---- Share 1 ----
// Name: pip
// Last-Modified YMD: 2017,6,26
// 

print 'Success.' . "\n";

?>