PHP for MS SharePoint?

Jip

Has anyone successfully developed an application for SharePoint using php? I'm know it is geared toward .NET development but I want to keep using php. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated!

obrienkev

Hey Jip.
I'm on the same problem. Company I work for want all websites to be integrated into Sharepoint.
All my sites are created using css/xhtml/php.

So now I have to learn how to integrate these sites into sharepoint so that certain individuals can make updates to the sites via sharepoint.

Do you know if this is possible? I imagine there will be a lot of reconstruction on sharepoint for this.

I'll let you know how I get on and give you whatever info I pick up.

Kevin.

Jip

Kevin - thanks for the reply. I'm just researching the possibilities of how SharePoint can work with php. My gut feeling is that it probably can but not as easily as asp.NET.

obrienkev

Hi Jip. This site allows you to have a free trial version for 30 days... http://www.sharepointtrial.com/default.aspx

hobbyman

Hey guys. You are not alone. Our company is moving our intranet from a
linux/apache/php server to sharepoint. We are trying to research the same
problem. This is the question list we are researching:

Convert all php code to .NET
Leave php as is and display them in a page viewer web part
Leave php as is and have links that will carry the user over to the current server

The page viewer web part has some problems (in our opinion).

We are still researching.

obrienkev

I'm after creating a new site and saved a page with .php extension. PHP is setup and working on the server but the php page does not work properly when loaded - the code is all that's displayed.

Any ideas why this is?

Kevin.

Jip

obrienkev wrote:
Hi Jip. This site allows you to have a free trial version for 30 days... http://www.sharepointtrial.com/default.aspx

Thanks for the link. It is much appreciated. My work in SharePoint has been pushed back until sometime in 2006 so I don't have much to add at this point.

obrienkev

Hi guys,

Has anyone learnt if it is possible for PHP to work with Sharepoint?

cstauffer

I'm looking into the same issue. Has anyone figured out how to integrate php with sharepoint?

wileersys

Were looking for connect php/javascript/applet java/activex to sharepoint... Any clue?

necrogami

I have a set of classes which area geared towards user data from our sharepoint server. I can pole users and such information based on windows domain information as long as it's linked into Sharepoint. If you are interested please let me know.

wileersys

You wrote class in php right? Im very interested!

necrogami

wileersys;10889648 wrote:
You wrote class in php right? Im very interested!

Well it's going to be a set of classes. At the moment it's not much, Trying to dive through so much SOAP response data is insane. Yes i have gotten connection setup and communicating in PHP w/ SOAP, WSDL, and NTLM.

solleder

I'm interested too. Can you show us your classes or send by email?

jodm

necrogami;10889692 wrote:
Well it's going to be a set of classes. At the moment it's not much, Trying to dive through so much SOAP response data is insane. Yes i have gotten connection setup and communicating in PHP w/ SOAP, WSDL, and NTLM.

I am interested in getting a copy of these classes. Could anyone forward them to me ?

Thanks
James

sokrplare_10

I'd appreciate a copy of the classes too!

I'm thinking of developing an open-source library of classes to work with the SharePoint web services. We need them internally and I think it might be helpful to the community as well. Any starting point would be a great help (if you're willing to have these classes used as that). If you're not, that is fine - it would still be really helpful to take a look before I start down the road myself!

Thanks!

toastyy

Hey any chance i could please get a copy of those classes as soon as possible? 🙂

They will save me a lot of time and hassle!

rohit12641

how to pass login and password to sharepoint authentication pop up from php website to bypass user login process?

alienux4

necrogami;10889692 wrote:
Well it's going to be a set of classes. At the moment it's not much, Trying to dive through so much SOAP response data is insane. Yes i have gotten connection setup and communicating in PHP w/ SOAP, WSDL, and NTLM.

I am working on a project where we will have an external php site data from an internal sharepoint site using SOAP. If i could use some of your classes, I could assist you in extending and testing their functionality. any help at all would be great

shawty

Ok Guys, Share-point is not some magical entity that everyone should be scared of, well not much anyway.

It runs under IIS, and if you download the latest PHP binary from php.net in exe installer format, it will detect and install for IIS on the machine you run the installer on.

However, your probably better off using the tool that Microsoft has developed specially for the job, and that's the MS Web platform installer, you can download it free at :

http://www.microsoft.com/web/Downloads/platform.aspx

Once you run that, you should get a choice of different things to install on your share-point box, and among the list is PHP.

That however is just the tip of the ice berg. Once you get PHP installed under IIS and running, you then need to communicate with the share-point web services, which is not as easy as it may first seem. Fortunately there is a good article here about it, that guides you through your first steps.

http://www.craigethomas.com/blog/2009/01/sharepoint-meet-php/

Finally if you have questions about the MS specific side of things, such as as share-point and or IIS, then you can ask your questions in the "Linked.Net users group.. (Lidnug)" on Linked in.

at : http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=43315

You will need a Linked-in account to access it however, but I can generally be found hanging around in there, along with many other Sharepoint and Microsoft based technology professionals.

Cheers

Shawty