Re: Frameworks

XMLSERVICE is more for IBMi data access. It's not really a web or full development framework.

From my experimentation with XMLSERVICE and PHP it's really mainly good for remote program and command calls.

The database access is still done by the DB2 drivers.

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message: 5
date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 01:09:48 -0600
from: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Frameworks

You might look at open source XMLSERVICE

It's probably the most straightforward way to do what you say you want to do.


On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 7:36 PM, Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Cross posted on web400 and midrange-l

I am in the planning stage for a new project that we are using PHP on
i for. PHP will provide the user interface and will call ILERPG for
validation and database updates.

As this is a larger project we have been looking at frameworks and are
currently reviewing the following;

1) Laravel
2) CodeIgniter
3) CakePHP

From our brief review we have come up with the following;

Laravel looks like it's gained a lot of traction recently and is the
current leader in frameworks although . . It looks like has a steeper
learning curve over CodeIgniter and CakePHP and it may be most
difficult to get running on an IBM i as it uses the command line for
certain tasks

CodeIgniter looks good too as it is more simple to set up and use.
It's not as feature rich as Laravel but it seems to have everything we
require for the project

CakePHP is one of the original PHP frameworks but I think it's loosing
traction.