• What is App Engine and the Google Cloud Platform?
• Getting started with PHP on App Engine
• Scaling your app and using asynchronous processing
• demos featuring our brilliant startup app (sure to make millions)
• a look at the code and App Engine admin console

- Guestbook app uses Cloud SQL

See 'getting started' tutorial: http://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/gettingstarted/

• WordPress: https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/wordpress
• WP starter project on GitHub: http://goo.gl/Tkk5rI
• with App Engine WordPress plugin

• Laravel: http://goo.gl/ulB8qw
• Drupal: http://goo.gl/CEvDl1
• Joind.in
• ...more to come

• Fast, scalable, distributed file system
• GCS stream wrapper, + direct uploads via HTTP POST

$options = [ "gs" => [ "Content-Type" => "text/plain" ]];
$ctx = stream_context_create($options);
file_put_contents("gs://my_bucket/hello.txt", "Hello", 0, $ctx);

$fp = fopen("gs://my_bucket/some_file.txt", "w");
fwrite($fp, "Hello");
fclose($fp);
    

Configure your app to allow includes from GCS (Twig, Smarty, etc.):
google_app_engine.allow_include_gs_buckets = "bucket1, bucket2"

...
handlers:
- url: /(.*\.(htm$|html$|css$|js$))
  static_files: wordpress/\1
  upload: wordpress/(.*\.(htm$|html$|css$|js$))
  application_readable: true
- url: /wp-admin/(.+)
  script: wordpress/wp-admin/\1
  secure: always
- url: /wp-cron.php
  script: wordpress/wp-cron.php
  login: admin
- url: /wp-(.+).php
  script: wordpress/wp-\1.php
- url: /(.+)?/?
  script: wordpress/index.php 

• Define tasks and process them asynchronously, in the background
• App Engine automatically scales processing capacity
  • matches your queue configuration and processing volume.

Tasks are units of work to be performed by the app.
Task objects contain a request handler URL and an optional payload.

require_once 'google/appengine/api/taskqueue/PushTask.php';
use \google\appengine\api\taskqueue\PushTask;
...
$task_params = ['feed_url' => $feed_url, 'user_id' => $user_id];
$task = new PushTask('/do_add_feed_task', $task_params);
$task->add();
      

require_once 'google/appengine/api/taskqueue/PushTask.php';
use \google\appengine\api\taskqueue\PushTask;
...
$task_params = ['feed_url' => $feed_url, 'user_id' => $user_id];
$task = new PushTask('/do_add_feed_task', $task_params);
$task->add(); 

The /do_add_feed_task handler script:

<?php
$user_id = $_POST['user_id'];
$feed_url = $_POST['feed_url'];
// in the handler, add the feed based on the task params
if (!addNewFeed($feed_url, $user_id)) {
  // ....
}  

handlers:
...
- url: /do_add_feed_task
  script: do_add_feed_task.php
  login: admin   

• Task handlers are always run as 'admin'
• You can use regexps in your app.yaml file, e.g.

- url: /(.+)_task
  script: /\1_task.php
  login: admin
    

  $task_options = [
    'delay_seconds' => $task_delay_seconds,
  ];

  $task = new PushTask('/rss_poll_handler',
    ['feed_url' => $feed_url],
    $task_options);
    

queue:
- name: rss-poll
  rate: 50/s
- name: add-feed
  rate: 10/s
    

require_once 'google/appengine/api/taskqueue/PushTask.php';
use \google\appengine\api\taskqueue\PushTask;
...
$task = new PushTask('/rss_poll_handler',
  ['feed_url' => $feed_url], $task_options)->add('rss-poll');
          

• Task Queue background processing is decoupled from request/response cycle
• scheduling, execution and retries handled automatically
• no management of queuing infrastructure
• Your app autoscales with increased demand
• Lets you focus on building the app.

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• 'Unofficial' GAE PHP tips Blog
• The I/O session talk
• Documentation
• Use the Cloud Datastore API
• PHP Google API client libs, or if you're adventurous
• Using PHPStorm with the App Engine Plugin
• Cloud Platform Blog
• The rss reader app code → github: coming soon