Re: WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work without FTP

As an aside to Aaron, have you tried your BP channel? You should be able to

get some results that way I'd have thought.

Believe it or not, I haven't really ever worked with a BP channel. By that
I mean, when I have purchased a new machine I have always gone directly to
IBM personnel. Whenever I need support I usually go to the forums. I have
tried to work with the BP channel a little (i.e. ordering RPG Open Acces),
but we all know how that turned out :-)

I agree that I should have probably brought this up in Zend or WordPress
forums - if for no other reason than to give IBM i some more representation.
I am going to modify the WordPress code a bit with some addtl echo
statements to see if I can find new information before taking it to other
forums.

Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On Dec 10, 2010, at 10:47 AM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

And I'm not struggling to get things working either!

And you've never been in the situation of needing help to get
something going on Windows and had trouble getting the right advice on
something new? Let's get real here. I only run Windows in a virtual
machine and still have problems every week with something or other. So
you're either very very lucky or being disingenuous.

Frankly I think Aaron was probably asking in the wrong place to begin
with. The Zend forum threads related to Wordpress, or the Wordpress
forums might have yielded better results - and certainly less
controversy!

The problem that Aaron faces arises not because of a bad platform
choice - it is a perfectly valid choice if using PHP on i for other
reasons and/or you need to simply integrate IBM i data into the
Wordpress output. His problem is simply that, as of today, there is
insufficient experience with running the tool on the latest PHP. Most
people who have Wordpress experience on IBM i gained that experience
with Zend Core which with its double-Apache fun and games was a very
different animal. In six months this question would get asked and
answered in 5 minutes.

As an aside to Aaron, have you tried your BP channel? You should be
able to get some results that way I'd have thought.


Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com