This is the first book to comprehensively address PHP and how it canand shouldbe deployed on the IBM i. With this IBM i-specific point of view, the authors examine how to transfer skills from a green screen environment to the Web, become intimately familiar with PHP s commonly used features, and help start down the road of highly interactive Web-based application development.
For decades, the green screen has been the ubiquitous interface into an organization s data. But with the advent of HTML, the Internet, and the browser, combined with the end user s existing familiarity with the Web, green-screen developers are seeing much of the demand for their skills diminish in favor of more Web-enabled technologies. One of those technologies is the PHP programming language.
A flexible, forgiving programming style makes PHP easier to learn, and is just one of the many reasons PHP tops the list when developers seek to improve their Web-related skills. While not limited to Web development, PHP is designed from the ground up to be the ideal environment to easily build simple or complex Web-based applications in the most effective manner possible, while still giving programmers the control they need.
With this book you will learn to:
> Build basic PHP applications and how to structure them
> Access local and remote resources, as well as external data sources
> Manage persistence between requests and the life of an individual request from browser to server to browser
> Tap System i DB2 database tables from PHP
> Install and access MySQL databases on the System i"
About the Author: Jeff Olen is the owner and founder of Olen Business Consulting Inc. and has developed PHP applications on the System i for a wide variety of clients. In addition to extensive development experience with RPG, he has also developed applications using C, C++, Javascript, HTML, PHP and MySQL. He lives in Orange, California. Kevin Schroeder is a technical consultant for Zend Technologies and has developed production software using a wide variety of languages including PHP, Java, Javascript, HTML, SQL, Perl, Visual Basic, ASP, and C. He lives in Frisco, Texas.
