PHP on IBM i Tutorial

IBM i Tutorial
ByMike Pavlak – Solution Consultant

Introductions
Who do we have here?

Who is Mike?
IBM i PHP Bigot!
Solution Consultant:
Techie tagalong – Works w/Account Managers
Help account managers develop solutions for customers
IBM i advocate
COMMON Americas Advisory Council
Omni User Group
IT Director, Development manager, Consultant, Programmer, Ops…

Who are you?
Around the room
Name
Job Title
Company
What are you doing with PHP on IBM i?

ZendCon ‘09 – IBM i Events
Sessions on Tuesday
PHP Faster and Cheaper
Sam Hennessy – Zend Technologies
Zend Core on IBM i – Security Considerations
Tony Cairns – IBM
PHP and IBM i - Database Alternatives
Erwin Early – IBM
Zend Framework on IBM i
Alan Seiden – Strategic Business Systems
Mazda: Advanced Web Services and PHP
Olivier Lépine - Quatrain Technologies

ZendCon ‘09 – IBM i Events (cont.)
Lunch
Tables will be labeled for i5 community networking
Yes you can sit somewhere else 
IBM i Networking Reception
Immediately following the “Meet the Team”
Wednesday evening meet in the hall and head out
Dinner is on you, but beers are on Zend!
Gordon Biersch (note in your bag or see me!)

Review IBM i Product Line from Zend
Zend Core (PHP Runtime)
Still free
Silver support for one year after Feb 2009
Zend Studio 7.0 for IBM i (IDE)
Still free
Basic support for one year after Feb 2009
Zend Platform (Box of tools)
Annual subscription license
Support upgrades available (Throat to choke!)
Gold and Platinum

What’s new?
Zend Server for IBM i
New product that combines features from Core and Platform
Single stack for all features
Alignment with other platforms!
One Apache server, not two! IBM server stays PASE server goes.
Still free version for i5 customers (Community Edition)
Currently in QA, beta soon GA after that

Current Architecture
System i5
i5/OS
URL:
http://myproxy:89/core/registration.php
PASE
Zend Core
PHP file
HTTP:89
Server
(Reverse Proxy)
Request
HTTP:8000
Server
Response
PHP
Module
HTML + PHP
DB2 UDB
Zend
Platform

Agenda
Toolkit functions
Studio Integration
Break #1
Zend Server
Open Source on IBM i
Break #2
Mix & Match Procedural PHP and Zend Framework

Toolkit functions
How we talk to IBM i from PHP Scripts

Toolkit functions to be reviewed
Differences between connections
System Values
Data Area
Library List
Object Listing
Program Call

Survey question
How many folks have used i5 functions?
Which ones?
What are we missing?

Connections, what’s the diff?
i5_connect
Access OS features
Access database features
Only available on i5, sorry Linux 
db2_connect
Access database features only
Better performance
Great for ubiquitous development

Connection successful

Connection error

DB2 Connection
Get doc at http://php.net/manual/en/book.ibm-db2.php

DB2 Connection
i5 options listed here too!

DB2 Connection: Good

DB2 Connection: Bad

System value
Build a “Manager Shortcut” menu
Key pieces of info for software installation & BP’s
Display via browser

System Value Code

System Value Display

Data Area
Use i5 to connect to IBM i
DB2 Connect will only take you to the Database

Data Area Access

Library List…
I5_connect
Get the data area without a library reference

Data Area with library list

Object Listing
Given a library
Show objects in the library
Think of the list of objects as a result set from SQL
Standard aproach
Create list
Read list
This works for spooled files, active jobs, etc.

Object listing code

Object list output

A brief word about CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
Very powerful in maintaining consistent look and feel of elements across applications
Will continue to use sample.css through presentation

Studio Integration
How Zend Platform works…

Debugging for the rest of us…
Very few slides
Lots of demo
Debug
Platform
More…

Debug rules
Must use port 8000!
Tunnel helps a LOT
Browser integration
We’ll look at configuring debug in Zend Studio
Then look at Zend Platform integration!

Break
Be back in 10 minutes

Zend Server for IBM i
The next generation of the Zend Stack for IBM i

The next generation of IBM i Zend Stack
Improvements:
Faster, How fast? I can’t tell you…but it is faster!
One less Apache server (Yay!)
More powerful JOBQ function
Alignment with the other product lines
Lot’s of tweaks and enhancements
Private Beta starting soon
Public beta immediately afterward

Open Source on IBM i
A quick look at PHPMyAdmin

Number 2 reason folks look at PHP on IBM i
Agenda
Explore benefits of open source on IBM i
Ponder a short list of popular applications
Examine the components for installation
Review the installation steps
Walk through a live implementation

phpMyAdmin
Fabulous utility for accessing MySQL Data on ANY platform
Written completely in PHP
You must have MySQL installed
Runs on IBM i…but…
…not supported on IBM i
DBU for MySQL!

What we will do with phpMyAdmin
Demo the product
Walk through the install steps
Demo a live installation

phpMyAdmin
Demo…
http://cuper1.zend.com:89/phpmyadmin
Tour MIKEY1
Create table
More features

phpMyAdmin – Installation process
Pre-requisties:
Zend Core for i5/OS
MySQL version 5 or greater
V5R4 or V6R1
Agenda
Get file
Move to IBM i
Un-tar
Configure
Play

Get phpMyAdmin file to IBM i
Go to the host website, download current version
http://www.phpmyadmin.net
Click Download at top of screen
Select version appropriate for you, I chose English tar.gz

Compression
Compression and archive…
TAR was done first
Then GZIP was done.
So….
You need to work in reverse
Unzip the file on your workstation (PKZip, etc.)
Move the file phpMyAdmin-3.2.2-english.tar to the IFS doc root
Then untar on the i5

Place file into document root

Command to untar
Tar = Tap Archive
Use QP2TERM interfac to untar
Call QP2TERM
Change to the document root
CD /www/zendcore/htdocs

Open PASE Shell

After the tar
The screen will roll quite a bit then you get the $
Now create a symbolic link to the directory for ease of use
ln -s ./phpMyAdmin-3.2.2-english phpMyAdmin

Create the config file
The config file tells phpMyAdmin where everything is.
Create manually
Use automated feature
Move to the phpMyAdmin directory
cdphpmyadmin
Create the directory & set security
mkdirconfig
chmodo+rwconfig

Results of directory and security changes

Go to browser to run config
http://your_host/path/to/phpMyAdmin/setup/

Scroll down to config options
Click the New server button…

Enter server specific info
Type a description of the server name
Leave localhost for hostname…click SAVE

Finish options
Select language, etc. And click save again

Copy the config file to phpMyAdmin directory
You just created a config file in directory config
Move the file to the phpMyAdmin directory for use
mvconfig/config.inc.php .
chmod o-rwconfig.inc.php

Head to the phpMyAdmin login screen
http://yourservername/phpMyAdmin/

Add user to MySQL
cd /usr/local/mysql/bin
Mysql –u root
use mysql
select user, password from user;

Before the addition

After the addition
Add the user:
CREATE USER ‘mpavlak'@‘%' IDENTIFIED BY ‘test1';
GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON *.* TO ‘mpavlak'@’%’;
Or
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO ‘mpavlak'@’%’;

And we’re in!

Break
Be back in 10 minutes

Mix & match
Procedural PHP & Zend Framework

Procedural PHP and Zend Framework
Agenda
Look at a procedural PHP application that gets order info
Look at the info in a web page
Move info to PDF and distribute
Think ZF is hard? Guess again!

Zend_PDF
Check out the Zend Framework website
http://www.zendframework.com/manual/en/zend.pdf.html
Look at an example that reads DB2 data and produces a PDF

Agenda
Read order detail file
Instantiate a PDF object
Update the object with the contents of the order
Write the PDF
Dispose of the object
Admire our work!

Zend_PDF
Component of Zend Framework
Comes with Zend Core for i5
FREE!!!
ZF is built by the community, for the community
Documentation at: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.pdf.html

Build the content
Read through the detail file…

Object & heading
Create object
Set heading

Body of print
Develop line detail
Output the PDF o the IFS

Windows Explorer view of IFS
Once in the IFS you do what you want
FTP, email, cms, etc…

The PDF!

Zend_PDF Documentation
Check out Zend_PDF doc at ZendFramework.com
Make it look pretty
Integrate into procedural development
Learn a little OO as you go
Come to Zend for more training
Higher Structures
Zend Framework
Certification prep
More…

Where to get more information
Zend and other places

Free code!
PHPClasses.org
Hotscript.com
Sourceforge.net
Php.net
Thefreecountry.com/php

Support
Zend.com
Forums
Knowledgebase
Webcasts
Downloads
Developer Zone
Product information & documentation
Paid products

New book, new printing, same great stuff!
Kevin Schroeder from Zend’s Global Services Group
with
Jeff Olen, co-author of…
Get yours at MCPressonline
or at fine bookstores everywhere

Mike’s blog!
http://mikepavlak/blogspot.com
Aggregated at http://planet-i.org/

IBM i Events…reminder!!!
Sessions on Tuesday
PHP Faster and Cheaper
Sam Hennessy – Zend Technologies
Zend Core on IBM i – Security Considerations
Tony Cairns – IBM
PHP and IBM i - Database Alternatives
Erwin Early – IBM
Zend Framework on IBM i
Alan Seiden – Strategic Business Systems
Mazda: Advanced Web Services and PHP
Olivier Lépine - Quatrain Technologies

IBM i Events (cont.)
Lunch
Tables will be labeled for i5 community networking
Yes you can sit somewhere else 
IBM i Networking Reception
Immediately following the “Meet the Team”
Wednesday evening meet in the hall and head out
Dinner is on you, but beers are on Zend!
Gordon Biersch (note in your bag or see me!)

Please enjoy the Conference!
Thank you!!!