Connect your PHP applications to resources on your IBM i (evolved from AS/400, iSeries) using the open source (free!) PHP Toolkit for IBM i.
Supported by Zend and IBM and co-developed by Alan Seiden and IBM’s Tony Cairns, the toolkit is also known as the XML Toolkit because the PHP front end and the XMLSERVICE RPG back end communicate via XML.
Start Here with Alan’s Presentation Slides
Get the most complete, accurate information about the PHP Toolkit by reading Alan’s presentation Bring RPG/COBOL Business Logic to the Web with the PHP Toolkit (PDF format).
Other Toolkit Resources
Download the PHP Toolkit with Zend Server
This download link takes you to the Zend web site, where the Toolkit is included with all Zend Server downloads, Releases 5.6 and higher. Just scroll down the page to download older versions of Zend Server.
Toolkit Headquarters
Hosted on the Young i Professionals site, an open source wonderland for IBM i. Log in to access the following downloads and resources:
- Latest Toolkit Downloads for both PHP front end and XMLSERVICE back end, installation instructions, and documentation
- XMLSERVICE toolkit back-end change log
Official Documentation
The official documentation can be found on the Zend web site.
Could you recommend a site that explains and gives example of passing multi occurrence parameter to and RPG program and return parameters. We are stuck at work and do not know where to look
Hello Alan, last year I attended one of your presentations on PHP on IBM i. Very interesting. I now have a problem with the API Toolkit, and so farI didn’t find any answers. Is there a way to declare parameters für the PgmCall method by way of using PCML? A short answer would be appreciated.
Regards from Germany
Peter
Hi, Peter,
I’m working on a toolkit update to support PCML with PgmCall. Do you use PCML heavily?
PCML is currently supported only by the compatibility wrapper [CW], but because new projects should use the new toolkit API (PgmCall, etc.) instead of CW, I intend to add PCML support for PgmCall.
Tell me more about your requirements if you would like, perhaps through my contact page.
Best regards,
Alan
Full support for PCML was added as of toolkit 1.6.
I am trying to connect ibm iseries using zend framework 2 through localhost. I have configured database details in global.php now need to call stored procedure using database object. I have gone through the questions answered by you on stackoverflow but I am unable to do anything and I have blocked.
Can please help me in this,
Praveen, are you connecting from a PC?
If You have problems with passing parameters, just write to database file, and the target program will read it. Just as simple as that.
I tried xml toolkit but it seems it doesn’t support large query, i tried to fetch 10000 records and it generate an error on AS400, is there some limitation that you are aware of?
Alessandro, no limitations. You probably need to set a higher plugSize.