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Are you looking to develop or deploy Web applications? PHP, the leading scripting language for Web applications, provides an open and easy to use alternative and gives you access to thousands of open source applications and scripts.

Thousands of IBM i customers around the world have downloaded Zend’s PHP products for i for a wide variety of web application development and deployment initiatives.

Getting started with PHP is easy:

Register to gain access to Zend support for Zend Server Community Edition.
- Starting in April 2010 Zend Server Community Edition, the PHP runtime, is preloaded with IBM i 7.1, 6.1 and 5.4.
Register and download Zend Studio for IBM i, Zend’s advanced development environment for PHP applications.

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 IBM i

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

Zend Server Community Edition for IBM i is a complete PHP runtime environment that includes a toolkit that enables easy access to IBM i applications and data.
Zend Server for IBM i also contains a complete PHP runtime environment, but additionally provides performance optimization, monitoring, root cause analysis, and more. It includes bridges to both 5250 and Java applications.
Zend Studio for IBM i is a professional grade IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for developing PHP applications.

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Many PHP applications are written to the open source MySQL database. MySQL is available for IBM i enabling these PHP applications to run on IBM i.