Re: native PHP in V5R4???

Thanks Pete,
I do believe that is the article I read that "gave me hope."

I am so in agreement with Simon, it should be a LPP or an option
To a LPP.

Ya know,,, the people of MKS do some of this *ix->iSeries stuff....

I wonder what they know?


Gerald




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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 4:59 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] native PHP in V5R4???

Then I wonder what the "hoopla" was about with the announcement of 
native support for PHP?

OK, here is what it is all about:  
http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs071905-story02.html

This is an article from last July that mentions the Zend support but 
yeah, it is still in PASE.  The "advantage" of Zend Core for IBM is that

it is a "supported" product from Zend, presumably with IBM's blessing.  
The article mentions a support option as well.

Looks like the packaging plus support for DB2/400 are the main 
advantages here (the DB2/400 support is nice but they mention that it 
takes a DB2 Connect license to make it work). As to a "true" native 
port, there isn't much hope for it.

I guess I'll stick with PHP and MySQL (or use the generic ODBC connector

to get to DB2/400 tables).  Looks like PASE is the only option at this 
point and in the foreseeable future.

Pete Helgren


Walden H. Leverich wrote:

>>By "native" I was under the impression that the 
>>"native" port was not just a set of binaries that 
>>ran in PASE but that PHP would be interpreted by 
>>programs running in the native i5/OS.  
>>    
>>
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>I'm not sure about PHP, but I know IBM's position on PASE in general is
>that if it runs under PASE it is "native" to OS/400. I know what you're
>saying, but what's the point of making something more native than PASE?
>DNS runs in PASE and we all say that the i5 can run DNS, right?
>
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