Zend Core PHP for i5OS

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Zend Core PHP for i5/OS

• Installation and Administration Overview

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Agenda

• What is PHP?
• What is Zend PHP?
• Why Use PHP?
• System i Prerequisites
• Installation
• Administration
• Example PHP Applications
• Zend Studio
• Where to get More PHP Info.

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What is PHP?

• Personalized Home Page
• Parsing Hypertext Preprocessor
• PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
• This is a recursive acronym
• Similar to other HTTP preprocessors
• i.e., .NET web apps., CGIDEV2, Cold Fusion, etc.
• Powers approx 40 websites worldwide
• System i Network forum
• National Weather Service
• Etc.

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What is PHP? (continued)

• Is the P in LAMP
• The "Four Pillars" of Open-Source web
  functionality
• Linux
• Apache
• MySQL
• PHP
• On the System i, these pillars are iADP
• i5/OS
• Apache
• DB2
• PHP

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What is Zend Core PHP?

• Modern implementation of latest PHP versions
• Out-of-the-Box development and production
  environments
• Prior to Zend Core, PHP implementations had to be
  downloaded, compiled, configured, etc.
• Freely downloadable
• Extra cost for support

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Why use PHP?

• Open-source applications available
• Multiple DBs supported, including DB2/UDB
• PEARDB layer generalizes DB access
• Fairly easy to learn
• Still need to understand HTML and JavaScript -
  PHP is an enhancement to HTML, not a replacement
• Has O-O capability w/out requiring a full O-O
  commitment
• Relatively low resource utilization
• Support for Web services
• Widely supported across multiple platforms

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System i Prerequisites

• i5/OS V5R3 or above
• None of the rest are extra cost, beyond i5/OS
• Most are delivered with i5/OS media
• 5722SS1 Opt. 13 (System Openness Includes)
• 5722SS1 Opt. 30 (Qshell)
• 5722SS1 Opt. 33 (PASE)
• 5722SS1 Opt. 34 (DCM)
• 5722AC3 BASE (Crypto Access Provider 128-bit)
• Part of the base OS in with V5R4
• 5733SC1 BASE (IBM Portable Utilities)

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System i Prerequisites (continued)

• 5733SS1 Opt. 1 (OpenSSH, OpenSSL, zlib)
• Delivered with V5R4 on separate CD
• Order from IBM for V5R3
• OpenSSH Open Secure Shell
• OpenSSL Open Secure Sockets Layer
• zlib zip (compression decompression) library
  routines

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Installation

• Straightforward and well documented
• Zend Installation document example
• Affiliateds installation notes

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Administration

• What an installation looks like
• User Profiles
• ZENDADMIN
• ZENDTECH
• NOBODY
• NOGROUP
• Licensed Pgm. 1ZCORE5
• Library ZENDCORE
• IFS files
• /www/zendcore/
• /usr/local/Zend/Core/
• /usr/local/Zend/apache2/ (Apache server (PASE
  env.))

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Administration (continued)

• Active jobs
• Subsystem QHTTPSVR
• ZENDCORE jobs
• Subsystem ZEND
• I5_COMD (Provides i5 extensions functionality)
• ZC_STR_PRN
• ZENDCOREAP (multiple instances)

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Administration (continued)

• Web-based Administration
• IBM System i Admin Pages
• Zend Admin Pages
• Native-Interface Administration
• GO ZENDCORE/ZCMENU
• Actually better for starting / stopping PHP
  server than GUI

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PHP Applications

• Where to get PHP applications
• Google search
• HotScripts.com
• Freshmeat.net
• Be careful looking for this one
• SourceForge.net
• or, you can always write your own

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Applications (continued)

• Applications that Affiliated has Installed
• i5DB
• A cheapie database demo application
• WebCal
• Fully functional calendaring application
• Applications that Affiliated will be Installing
• Mantis
• Fully functional bug tracking and RFC application

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Zend Studio

• Similar to other IDEs
• WDSC, Visual Studio, etc.
• Integrated debug w/ System i server
• Free for System i users
• The full Professional version
• Later versions may have
• RPG templates
• Webfacing type functionality

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Where to get More PHP Info.

• Sys i Network webcast
• Why RPG programmers should care about PHP
• PHP.net
• Zend.com
• IBM Redbooks
• IBM Redwiki PHP Zend for i5/OS