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How-To Video: The Zen of Using PHP without Zend Server

June 23, 2020/0 Comments/in IBM i, Open Source, PHP /by Amy Lantz

Just one year away from end-of-life for no-charge Zend Server “Basic”—and six months after the release of license-free Community PHP—many IBM i shops face an important decision:

“Do we upgrade to a paid Zend Server license,
or do we migrate to RPM-based PHP?”

At a recent MAGiC User Group webinar, Alan Seiden and Richard Schoen teamed up to present a tutorial and demo on how to get started with Community “RPM” PHP, sharing several tips picked up during client migrations.

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Free PHP on IBM i: from Basic edition to RPMs

April 29, 2020/0 Comments/in PHP /by Alan Seiden

open php Last week, Perforce announced plans to withdraw Zend Server for IBM i “Basic” by June 2021. Filling the gap is license-free “community” PHP for IBM i, installable in RPM format.

Seiden Group has been assisting IBM i clients to adopt Community PHP since its introduction last year. We’ve helped with both first-time PHP installations and migrations from Basic.

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Update on Free, Open PHP for IBM i

January 28, 2020/0 Comments/in PHP /by Alan Seiden

php ibm i training Since last month’s post about free and open PHP on IBM i, we have been helping companies to get started with it.

We’ve seen excellent results with the open PHP package, known as an RPM. Starting with the PHP repository provided by IBM and Zend (Perforce) as a base, we are able to optimize PHP for the needs of each IBM i shop.

Especially appealing to us and our clients: this PHP is 64-bit and leans toward open standards, including ODBC. In exchange for a bit of setup time, you’ll have a system that’s lightweight, flexible, and license-free.

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Free and Open PHP on IBM i

December 17, 2019/3 Comments/in IBM i, PHP /by Alan Seiden

open php ibm i A new flavor of PHP has arrived in IBM i-land. Some call it “free.” Some call it “community.” As described in a recent IT Jungle article, PHP is now available on IBM i as a lean RPM download that does not require Zend Server.

Our friends at IBM and Zend (now Perforce) have packaged a bare-bones PHP edition for customers who want PHP but don’t feel they need to purchase the extra tools of Zend Server.

I’ll share what our open source experts at Seiden Group have learned as we’ve installed and optimized both traditional Zend Server and “open” PHP for our customers.

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PHP Debugging on the IBM i from A to Z (Apache to Zend)

October 29, 2018/0 Comments/in PHP /by Stephanie Rabbani

Session Handout

500 internal server error? Wait, now it’s a 404 error. I think it’s actually a syntax error. And now my program call isn’t returning anything. My page doesn’t look right, and my Javascript is not working.

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RPG APIs: A Modernization Treasure

June 25, 2018/0 Comments/in PHP /by Alan Seiden

When modernizing applications, we help organizations select a software architecture that’s flexible, yet can last many years.

A recent article about our client K3S got our attention. Author Alex Woodie wrote that the inventory forecasting software vendor had updated their package with an attractive web-based interface using PHP, while adapting their existing RPG code into APIs written in RPG.

But I knew there was more to this story. So I asked King Harrison IV—K3S’s executive vice president, friend, and founding member of Club Seiden— to elaborate on their choice of RPG APIs.

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Integrating Salesforce with IBM i Applications

June 19, 2018/0 Comments/in IBM i, PHP /by Stephanie Rabbani

Salesforce IBM i We recently worked with a large financial services company that wanted to enable real-time data updates between Salesforce and applications running on both IBM i and a Linux-based system.

Every day, people from a variety of departments entered customers, leads, and orders into these systems. The salespeople, however, needed to access the most current information from within Salesforce.

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Migrating from Zend Framework 1 (ZF1) to Newer PHP Frameworks

June 11, 2018/0 Comments/in PHP /by Alan Seiden

We’ve recently been getting requests to help upgrade the venerable Zend Framework 1 (ZF1) to newer PHP frameworks. The effort is necessary but not trivial. To help you succeed with your migration, here are some suggestions.

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Is Your Zend Server Environment Showing Its Age?

June 8, 2018/0 Comments/in PHP /by Alan Seiden

Zend Server This week marked our 6th anniversary, evolving from “just Alan” to the amazing team at Seiden Group.

This milestone got me wondering…with as much change as we’ve seen over the past six years with PHP and Zend Server, how many PHP environments out there are four, five, or six or more years old?

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