Talk by Mike Pavlak of Zend, at ZendCon 2009

1. IBM i Tutorial ByMike Pavlak – Solution Consultant

2. Introductions Who do we have here?

3. 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…

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

5. 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

6. 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!)

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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

11. Toolkit functions How we talk to IBM i from PHP Scripts

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

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

14. 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

15. Connection successful

16. Connection error

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

18. DB2 Connection i5 options listed here too!

19. DB2 Connection: Good

20. DB2 Connection: Bad

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

22. System Value Code

23. System Value Display

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

25. Data Area Access

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

27. Data Area with library list

28. 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.

29. Object listing code

30. Object list output

31. 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

32. Studio Integration How Zend Platform works…

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

34. 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!

35. Break Be back in 10 minutes

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

37. 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

38. Open Source on IBM i A quick look at PHPMyAdmin

39. 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

40. 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!

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

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

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

46. Place file into document root

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

48. Open PASE Shell

49. Open PASE Shell

50. 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

51. 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

52. Results of directory and security changes

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

54. Scroll down to config options Click the New server button…

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

56. Finish options Select language, etc. And click save again

57. 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

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

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

60. Before the addition

61. 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'@’%’;

62. And we’re in!

63. Break Be back in 10 minutes

64. Mix & match Procedural PHP & Zend Framework

65. 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!

66. 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

67. 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!

68. 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

69. Build the content Read through the detail file…

70. Object & heading Create object Set heading

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

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

73. The PDF!

74. 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…

75. Where to get more information Zend and other places

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

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

78. 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

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

80. 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

81. 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!)

82. Please enjoy the Conference! Thank you!!!