PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 20:12:40 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Andi Gutmans' Blog: PHP coming to i5/OS]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5172 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5172 Previously, we reported on IBM and Zend working together to bring PHP to IBM's Series i machines, and today, Andi Gutamns has posted more details on the collaboration.

Although this platform might be foreign to many in the PHP community, over the past few years I have discovered quite a few who have either worked with PHP on this platform by following IBM's Redbook instructions or have installed PHP on a UNIX/Linux server and then interoperated with the i5/OS.

As part of this project we will be providing all i5/OS users Zend Core for i5/OS for free. This will very much lower the barrier of entry to get up and running with PHP. We will also be providing ways for them to access their existing code-base by creating language bridges (such as an RPG bridge), native drivers for accessing DB2/400, and various other bridges to operating system services.

He continues on to talk about how this will (positively) effect the i5/OS community, giving them an alternative to Java. He also compares the PHP community and the i5/OS community - they're both passionate about what they do and they both tend to be made up of people with no formal computer science experiences.

]]> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:08:02 -0500 <![CDATA[InfoWorld: PHP extended to IBM midrange line]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5096 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5096 news release from InfoWorld today, there's information on the work that Zend and IBM are doing to bring PHP to IBM's System i computers (formerly the iSeries or AS/400s).

Development products featured as part of an agreement between IBM and Zend include Zend Core for the i5/OS; which will be Zend's PHP implementation for System i; Zend Studio for i5/OS development tools, and Zend Platform (Overview, Articles, Company) for i5/OS, which features tools for operating Web sites.

The goal of the effort is to enable development of Web applications for deployment on System i computers. PHP is a widely used scripting language for Web applications.

According to the release, the marriage of PHP and the System i machines, both popular among budget-minded individuals, will "open up a sizable market" for smaller clients.]]> Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:51:18 -0500