Daniel Krook's Blog: A DB2 driver for CakePHP

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:28:00 -0600

Daniel Krook has a quick post about the DB2 driver he's created for the CakePHP framework:

I've just completed the initial version of the IBM DB2 interface that I've written for the CakePHP framework.

This driver can also be used with IBM Cloudscape, Apache Derby, and Sun Java DB because it employs the same ibm_db2 PECL extension for connecting to all of these RDBMSes.

Stay tuned to his blog for more details...

IBM developerWorks: Build a Web service with PHP

Wed, 24 May 2006 06:05:12 -0500

Web services are a great way to link machines and provide data out to a needy public (whether that be internal or external), but getting started with them can sometimes be confusing. Thankfully, there's tutorials like this one from IBM developerWorks to help things along.

This tutorial is for PHP programmers that would like to jump on the Web services bandwagon by creating a Web service in PHP. You'll build a Web service by building a SOAP server in PHP. The Web service you will create will be a vehicle lookup service that takes in queries based on make, model, and year.

There's many different methods one can use to handle the messages for a web service - they decided on SOAP. Obviously, you'll need a working PHP install on an Apache web server before even getting started, and they use a database (Apache Derby) to handle the data on the backend. You'll need to login/create a login to get into it, but once you do, you can follow their steps to the creation of an example client and server for the web service:

Overview and Setup
Simple SOAP server in PHP
Derby: Setting Up
Architecting the user interface
The client
The server

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Daniel Krook's Blog: A DB2 driver for CakePHP

IBM developerWorks: Build a Web service with PHP