Google Cloud Platform Starter Pack allows developers from affiliated partners to receive $2,000 of credit - $1,000 for Google App Engine and $1,000 for Cloud Platform services like Cloud SQL.

Apply at http://goo.gl/0YjkLQ

(cloud.google.com/starterpack)

Use promo code amyu-in.

Easy to deploy and manage your apps:

• Scales automatically
• Powerful background processing
• Managed Cloud SQL
• Managed services and APIs- preconfigured and ready to use
• Security benefits

• What is App Engine and the Cloud Platform?
• Getting started with PHP on App Engine
• WordPress on App Engine (walkthrough and demos)
• if time... using Task Queues with WP

• Create an AppEngine application, configure app.yaml and php.ini
• Use http streams for network calls
• Mail API for sending mail
• Google Cloud SQL as production SQL database, Google Cloud Datastore for NoSQL datastore
• Google Cloud Storage for file system writes/uploads (there is a GCS stream wrapper)
• Memcache service for cache
• Cron, task queues for background jobs

→ Scalable apps and asynchronous processing made easy

• Create an app engine app and associated cloud project
• In the project, create a cloud storage 'bucket' (for media uploads)
• In the project, set up a Cloud SQL instance (for a SQL database)
• Enable billing (use the starter pack credits!)

Useful links:

• The Cloud Console: https://cloud.google.com/console
• Directly go to your App Engine apps: https://appengine.google.com/
• https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/

• Set up your local runtime environment
• Grab the App Engine SDK and launcher

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/

• app.yaml, php.ini, wp-config.php
• The WordPress getting started repo: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-php-wordpress-starter-project
  (http://goo.gl/Tkk5rI)
• WordPress 'getting started' article: https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/wordpress
• App Engine WordPress plugin

A note about plugin installation...

<path_to_sdk>/dev_appserver.py --php_executable_path=<path_to_php-cgi54> .

• via the launcher and appcfg.py
• git push-to-deploy

Explore the App Engine Admin Console (dashboard, logs, task queues, versions and traffic splitting, and much more)

• These slides: http://goo.gl/vxqe7y, http://sydwp.amy-slides.appspot.com/
   
• 'Unofficial' GAE PHP Tips Blog: https://gae-php-tips.appspot.com/
• The I/O session talk
• Documentation: http://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/
• Using PHPStorm with the App Engine Plugin
• Cloud Platform Blog: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com

Google Cloud Platform Starter Pack allows developers from affiliated partners to receive $2,000 of credit - $1,000 for Google App Engine and $1,000 for Cloud Platform services including Cloud SQL.

Apply at http://goo.gl/0YjkLQ.
 

(cloud.google.com/starterpack)

Use promo code amyu-in.

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

Tasks are HTTP request handlers.

require_once 'google/appengine/api/taskqueue/PushTask.php';
use \google\appengine\api\taskqueue\PushTask;
...
$task_params = ['message' => $message, 'to' => $people];
$task = new PushTask('/sms_notify.php', $task_params)->add();
$task->add(); 

require_once 'google/appengine/api/taskqueue/PushTask.php';
use \google\appengine\api\taskqueue\PushTask;
...
$task_params = ['message' => $message, 'to' => $people];
$task = new PushTask('/sms_notify.php', $task_params)->add();
$task->add(); 

The /sms_notify handler script:

<?php
$message = $_POST['message'];
$to = $_POST['to'];
// in the handler, notify based on the params
// ....
  

handlers:
...
- url: /sms_notify
  script: sms_notify.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
    

add_action('publish_post', 'launchNotificationTasks');
add_action('save_post', 'schedulePublishTask');