Hmm. There is always php.net. It is full of all kinds of examples. It
should really be your defacto resource for PHP in general. (No offense to
Zend. Maybe to Mike though :) ).
For i5_ commands, Zend is the place to go because they are the only ones
who have them. The forums on the Zend website have lots of people to
help. There is an "i5" section in that forum as well.
Jeff Olen's book is a good intro to PHP on i5, resource. I think it is
listed in store.midrange.com (buy it there and help David out with the
lists).
If you still need more info, just let me know.
HTH,
Brian May
Project Lead
Management Information Systems
Garan, Incorporated
Starkville, Mississippi
Young i Professionals
http://www.youngiprofessionals.com
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Point well taken, thanks.
Then is there some type of publication that will guide you through those
options?
It always seems that third party books do that. But I have even found some
of them light with examples and explanations.
I am the first to admit I am not the sharpest tool in the shed. I am
fortunate that the company I work for has a computer programmer as
President. So he knows what it takes to do stuff. But I can really feel
for
those who work for companies who have bosses who want results and want
them
quick. And do not understand that it does days of research and trail and
error to get something simple to work at times.
After DDS, HTML and Java Script are tons of fun too. :)
And to Mikes response, yes thank God for this forum. I always try to
research before asking a question, it is a good way to learn more, but it
has given me answers to questions that I could not seem to find anywhere
else.
Ok, I will go find some cheese for my whine now....
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Tom,
I think the main reason is that there are MANY different ways you could be
doing it. You could be prompting for user and password via Apache or your
own form. If it is your own form, once you have the signon and password,
you could be storing them as session variables, in an encrypted temp file
in the IFS, or any number of other scenarios. The example in the manual
is really just there to explain the i5_connect function. How you use it
is up to you.
Brian May
Project Lead
Management Information Systems
Garan, Incorporated
Starkville, Mississippi
Young i Professionals
http://www.youngiprofessionals.com
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Mike,
How about the i5_connect that is in mentioned in this thread?
Here is the example from the user guide:
$conn = i5_connect("1.2.3.4", "MYUSER", "MYPWD");
if (!$conn) {
die(i5_errormsg());
}
Why would the example have a hard-coded user name and password? Who would
do
that?
I am not picking on ZEND, this seems to be the norm. Every example is a
'hello world' example. Yet taking that to a practical step is where the
blood sweat and tears
come
in.
So where do I go from there to find out how to have the user key in their
user id and password? Mr. Google and forums like this, I guess. But
sometimes when you go to Mr. Google, you find that the examples out there
are not correct.
Ok, I am done ranting. Thanks for reading this.
Tom Deskevich
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Tom,
Have you tried the Zend Core for i5/OS User Guide? It is located here and
there are many examples:
http://www.zend.com/topics/Zend-Core-User-Guide-i5OS-V261.pdf
Whether you consider them "good" or not is another discussion :-)
Also, which i5 functions do you have questions about? I have sample code
on
many of them and can provide if desired.
Regards,
Mike
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