Zend and IBM i

Applications

PHP has the support of a large community with thousands of applications and components to share. Try out the PHP scripts available on http://www.hotscripts.com (link resides outside of ibm.com), http://sourceforge.net/ (link resides outside of ibm.com), http://www.opensourcecms.com (link resides outside of ibm.com), http://www.phpjunkyard.com/ (link resides outside of ibm.com) and http://www.phpfreaks.com/ (link resides outside of ibm.com).

Developing PHP Application for IBM i
This roadmap helps IBM i Web application developers create applications for PHP with Zend Server CE for IBM i.

Porting PHP Applications to IBM i
This roadmap provides information for solution providers to port their PHP applications to the IBM i using the Zend Server CE runtime environment.

Brochures, Spec Sheets, and White Papers

Paper: Deploying Open Community Solutions in i5/OS (PDF, 290KB)

Redbook: Discovering MySQL on i5/OS

Article: MySQL Delivers Applications for i5/OS (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Book: Getting Started with PHP for i5/OS, by Brian Kelly (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Brochure: MySQL for i5/OS (PDF, 63KB)

Redbook: PHP: Zend for i5/OS

Redbook: Building SOA-based Solutions for System i

Brochure: System i Integration with PHP (PDF, 96.5KB)

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Articles

• 5250 Bridge
• PHP Frameworks
• Open Source Web Development Stack
• Taking Advantage of Open Source for i5/OS
• PHP installation and setup for i5/OS

Tools

IBM Migration Toolkit for MySQL to DB2 on i
This tool helps you convert SQL statements from MySQL to DB2 on i.

Zend Server CE for IBM i available in IBM VLP
IBM's Virtual Loaner Program allows ISVs to remotely test their applications running on IBM i.

Education

Zend Training (link resides outside of ibm.com) - Zend offers a variety of training classes on PHP.

Community Resources

There are numerous community resources available for PHP, including:

Zend Forums for i (link resides outside of ibm.com) – a place to ask questions and share experiences

Zend Developer Zone (link resides outside of ibm.com) – a source of news and articles on PHP

php.net (link resides outside of ibm.com) – the opensource PHP site

IBM Developer Works (link resides outside of ibm.com) – Project information for PHP developers

Announcements

IBM: IBM Provides PHP support with IBM i

IBM: System i Value Pack for Zend and MySQL

IBM: Zend Platform for i5/OS

IBM: Zend delivers PHP Software for System i

IBM i Requirements

Requirements for Zend Server CE and Zend Server for IBM i:

IBM i 7.1
IBM i 6.1
IBM i 5.4

i5/OS V5R3

• Zend Server CE for i5/OS Version 1.6 or later required
• i5/OS V5R3 database PTF SI25802 is required
• Zend Server CE for i5/OS does not support remote debugging from a Zend Studio client.

Plus

			Version 6	Version 5
·	Portable App Solutions Environment	33	5761ss1	5722ss1
·	Qshell	30	5761ss1	5722ss1
·	IBM HTTP Server for i5/OS	*base	5761dg1	5722dg1
·	IBM Portable Utilities For i5/OS	*base	5733sc1	5733sc1
·	OpenSSH ,OpenSST,Zlib	1	5733sc1	5733sc1

Power Systems that run IBM i 7.1, 6.1, 5,4 or V5R3