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Azure Storage: Create Container

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Azure Storage Blob Service REST API: Sample code to create a new container under a specified account.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\AuthAzureStorage;
use Chilkat2\Rest;

// Azure Blob Service Example: Create Container
// See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd179468.aspx

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

$rest = new Rest();

// Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
$bTls = true;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = true;
// In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
try {
    $rest->Connect('chilkat.blob.core.windows.net', $port, $bTls, $bAutoReconnect);

    // Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
    $azAuth = new 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';
    $rest->SetAuthAzureStorage($azAuth);

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

    // The expected success response is a 201 response status code with no response body.
    // In this example, the container to be created is named "mycontainer".
    $responseStr = $rest->FullRequestNoBody('PUT', '/mycontainer?restype=container');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

// When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 201 response code,
// with no response body.

// If the container with the same name already exists, then the operation will fail.
if ($rest->ResponseStatusCode != 201) {
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    echo 'response status code = ', $rest->ResponseStatusCode, "\n";
    echo 'response status text = ', $rest->ResponseStatusText, "\n";
    echo 'response header: ', $rest->ResponseHeader, "\n";
    echo 'response body (if any): ', $responseStr, "\n";
    echo "---\n";
    echo 'LastRequestStartLine: ', $rest->LastRequestStartLine, "\n";
    echo 'LastRequestHeader: ', $rest->LastRequestHeader, "\n";
    exit;
}

// If desired, we can examine some of the response headers:
echo 'ETag: ', $rest->ResponseHdrByName('ETag'), "\n";
echo 'Last-Modified: ', $rest->ResponseHdrByName('Last-Modified'), "\n";

echo "Success: Container Created.\n";