Re: Getting started with Net.data - was -I'dbetter domorethan talk

In my experience, All the PHP developers I have met that have been asked
to work on and IBMi have little trouble moving to the IBMi. Many
actually enjoy it :-) There is a sect in the PHP community longing to
support PHP in an enterprise environment.

I think the IBMi is easier to learn and understand than the dark art of
Linux. IMHO...

And yes, the i5-toolkit in Zend Core is pretty easy to use, but not
necessary for straight SQL calls to the DB.

Regards,

Mike


Also, check out the i5 content at ZendCon 2008 - Our annual PHP
ConferenceSeptember 15-18:
www.zendcon.com

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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Getting started with Net.data - was -I'dbetter
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Robert

Have you tried Net.Data? It is fitted so well to the native iSeries
stuff - yes, that also exists in PHP, it seems. But for simple? Wow - I
remember it was the utmost in simple. Standard HTML plus script
statements that relate directly to what we use on the iSeries - almost
no learning curve here.

All those PHP developers out there are probably not working against an
iSeries - so one will have to do lots of adjustments and mods, I bet -
of course, I've used it yet ;-)

Vern
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From: "Dean, Robert" <rdean@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

If time is really that critical, I would say start out with PHP. It
is the most widely used web application development language, and

there

is a broad community supporting it.

When you're ready for something a little less prototype-y, Zend has
an open source framework that will help with building well-designed
applications.

PHP also has a fair number of quality IDEs that support it (including
Zend Studio, NetBeans, and Eclipse PDT) and offer good debugging

tools.

The IDE support isn't as full-featured as what you get with Java or
.Net, but it's definitely worthwhile.

--Robert