Re: native PHP in V5R4???

PHP is a compelling thing and has been around for years. It can certainly be
used as a replacement for Net.Data--but porting net.data is problematic (except
by hand).

Aaron, your comment is the first one I've seen that actually refers to the "Road
map". Not a topic for this list, but it is interesting that someone other than
IBM or ex-IBM actually used it in a sentence.
 

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.


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Of albartell
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 8:07 PM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WEB400] native PHP in V5R4???


PHP vs. RPG CGI is a toss up for me - I am a Java fan for web apps. Like you
said native access is HUGE and saves a lot of time. And then having a
language like PHP is really nice also where it was built with the web in
mind - it even is OO now which opens some new doors for abstract framework
building. 

It will be interesting if the iSeries dating PHP turns into marriage in the
next couple years. It is close, but it isn't "out-of-the-box ready" yet.

What would be really interesting is if IBM added PHP to the developer
roadmap. That would give it a lot more face time.

They could put it in the Application Refacing section here:
http://www.developer.ibm.com/vic/hardware/portal/iii_pages/iii_tools_innov_e
nhance


Aaron Bartell

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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 7:41 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] native PHP in V5R4???

Aaron,
     
    My impression of   PHP is more favorable after following up on the links
you provided.  Smarty   looks like a good way of separating UI files from UI
control logic, and it looks   like PHP supports the development of modular
code.
     
    I'd hate to give   up the native database interface and superior
performance of RPG, but it   looks seems possible to write well structured
Web interfaces with   PHP.
    
  
    Nathan   Andelin
     
  
  

albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:  I actually use mail.yahoo.com also
and agree with your speed assessment.
Maybe what I should have said is that PHP is definitely capable of being
used on huge sites, but should one.  :-)

 
>Performance   aside, the larger the application, the more unweildy a
scripting technology like   PHP becomes.
Could you expound on this for the sake of those that are thinking PHP is the
way to go on the iSeries? Of the PHP I have done I have liked it (not enough
to continue with it over Java though).  They have some nice tooling out
there (http://pear.php.net/, http://smarty.php.net/) that certainly
surpasses what we have with RPG CGI.

Thanks,
Aaron Bartell


                
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