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Delivering PHP for i5/OS

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Are you open to innovation? Creating innovative and new Web applications gets easier with PHP — the leading scripting language for Web enablement. It is open and easy to use, and gives you access to thousands of PHP-based applications and scripts available today. Zend is now delivering their PHP offerings for IBM i5/OS®, creating an open and integrated platform for Web application development. Start innovating your applications today. Join the thousands of people that have downloaded Zend Core for i5/OS and Zend Studio for i5/OS with 3 years of standard support for no charge.

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So what is PHP?
PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is an open source scripting language that is designed for Web application development and enables very simple scripting. PHP is widely used for content management, customer relationship management, database access, ecommerce, forums, blogs, wikis, and other Web-based applications.


Develop and Run PHP Applications on i5/OS

Zend is "The PHP Company". They provide products, support, education, and services for PHP application development and deployment.

  • Zend Core for i5/OS provides a PHP run time environment. It includes a toolkit that enables easy access to i5/OS applications and data.
  • Zend Studio for i5/OS is a development tool for PHP applications.
  • Zend Platform for i5/OS features capabilities to improve performance, scalability, and monitoring on PHP applications.

Many PHP applications are written to the open source MySQL database. MySQL is available for i5/OS enabling these PHP applications to run on i5/OS.


What is new
Redbook: Discovering MySQL for i5/OS
Zend delivers Zend Core 2.5 for i5/OS which bundles MySQL Community Server
Zend announces plans to integrate Zend Studio with Eclipse
Paper: Deploying Zend Core, MySQL, and SugarCRM in 37 Minutes (290 KB)
Article: MySQL Delivers Applications for i5/OS
Book: Getting Started with PHP for i5/OS, by Brian Kelly


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