Re: Calling a stored procedure that exists ontheAs/400fromPHP

Sorry, I don't know too much about using ODBC to access the IBM i.

Do you have Client Access (Access for Windows or whatever IBM is calling it these days) installed on the Windows machine? If so, could you use the iSeries Access ODBC Driver to do what you need? I don't know...just trying to come up with possibilities for you.

Kelly Cookson
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 x12676
www.dotfoods.com


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gqcy
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 3:55 PM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Calling a stored procedure that exists ontheAs/400fromPHP

Thanks Kelly,
This is our case. Our production PHP server is on a windows box, an we
use ODBC to the system i.
However, from what I gather (which is VERY limited), stored procedure
calls with returning data don't work with the ODBC connector (well at
least I can't get any data back)

-gerald





Kelly Cookson wrote:

The rule is: the DB2_ functions can only be used to access a DB2 database installed on the same machine that runs your PHP scripts.

If you are running your PHP scripts in the Zend Core, Zend Platform, or Zend Server on the IBM i, then you can use the DB2_ functions to access the DB2400 database on the IBM i. I actually prefer this to the i5_ functions.

If you are running your PHP scripts in a web server located on a machine using the Windows operating system, then you will need to set up an ODBC (JDBC, etc) connection between your scripts on the Windows machine and the DB2400 database on the IBM i.

I can't say what kind of a performance difference there would be between these two options.

Kelly Cookson
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 x12676
www.dotfoods.com


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Deskevich
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 3:12 PM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Calling a stored procedure that exists ontheAs/400fromPHP

Please forgive my ignorance. Do you mean which zend client that I develop in
using Windows?
I don't think I need anything installed on Windows if I am developing and
running my scripts straight off the i.
Maybe someone else can chime in if I am misleading you...

Tom Deskevich