Google Compute Engine PHP Sample Application

Description

This is a simple web-based example of calling the Google Compute Engine API in PHP.

Prerequisites:

Please make sure that all of the following is installed before trying to run the sample application.

• PHP 5.2.x or higher [http://www.php.net/]
• PHP Curl extension [http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.curl.php]
• PHP JSON extension [http://php.net/manual/en/book.json.php]
• The google-api-php-client library checked out locally [https://code.google.com/p/google-api-php-client/]

Setup Authentication

NOTE: This README assumes that you have enabled access to the Google Compute Engine API via the Developer Console page.

1. Visit https://cloud.google.com/console/ to register your application.

• Select or create a project
• Click on "APIs & auth" in the left column
• Choose the "Credentials" sub-menu option. "Create a new client ID" if you have not generated any client IDs, or don't want to use one you have already created.
• Select "Web application" as the "Application type"
• Under the redirect URI, enter the location of your application
• Click "Create client ID"
• Note the client id and client secret that was just created
• Click on "Overview" in the left column and note the Project ID

2. Update app.php with the redirect uri, client id, client secret, and Project ID obtained in step 1.

• Update 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID' with your oauth2 client id.
• Update 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET' with your oauth2 client secret.
• Update 'YOUR_REDIRECT_URI' with the fully qualified redirect URI.
• Update 'YOUR_GOOGLE_COMPUTE_ENGINE_PROJECT' with your Project ID from the API Console.

Running the Sample Application

3. Load app.php on your web server, and visit the appropriate website in your web browser.