PHP – did anyone ever find out what this actually was an acronym for? “Personal Home Page” or “PHP Home Page” or something else? I actually did some PHP back when it was like version 2 and there was some HUGE security hole for hackers to take over your site. I really thought it was going to die because of JSP, so I stopped using it but I did enjoy using it. It lives on. I digress. Anyway, I know there are quite few PHP developers out there who love Bing Maps, but love their PHP. And, our Bing Maps don’t necessary bode well for trying to convert C# to PHP. Well, thanks to the Microsoft Interoperability Team we now have a helpful document Accessing the Bing Maps REST Services using PHP - Bing Maps | Microsoft Learn. If you look to the left menu, you will also find Accessing the Bing Spatial Data Services using PHP - Bing Maps | Microsoft Learn

After looking at some of the steps, the instructions looks very solid. It’s actually quite nice to see others building out Bing Maps interfaces to support the general developer community. We could use some good Java / JSP samples…anyone? Maybe some Cocoa or Python? I had to ask.

If you’re a PHP developer wanting to develop with Bing Maps, I think I just made your day.