Re: Calling a stored procedure that exists on the As/400 from PHP

["Sylvain Rubele" <srubele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald,

The i5 ToolKit embedded in PHP for IBM i is also available for Linux and Windows PHP server.
The ToolKit allows you to call native existing programs, or stored procedures on i, AS/400. Input/output parameter passing is supported.
Take a look to i5connect(), i5_program_call(), i5_prepare(), ... in the function reference:  
http://www.easycom-aura.com/Data/WebHelp/PHP/easycomforphp.htm#api_functions/connection/i5_connect.htm

Sylvain Rubele
AURA Equipements
http://www.easycom-aura.com


Gerald wrote:
date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:54:35 -0600
from: Gqcy <gmufasa01@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Calling a stored procedure that exists
        ontheAs/400fromPHP

Thanks Kelly,
This is our case.  Our production PHP server is on a windows box, an we
use ODBC to the system i.
However, from what I gather (which is VERY limited), stored procedure
calls with returning data don't work with the ODBC connector (well at
least I can't get any data back)

-gerald


Kelly Cookson wrote:
> The rule is: the DB2_ functions can only be used to access a DB2 database installed on the same machine that runs your PHP scripts.
>
> If you are running your PHP scripts in the Zend Core, Zend Platform, or Zend Server on the IBM i, then you can use the DB2_ functions to access the DB2400 database on the IBM i. I actually prefer this to the i5_ functions.
>
> If you are running your PHP scripts in a web server located on a machine using the Windows operating system, then you will need to set up an ODBC (JDBC, etc) connection between your scripts on the Windows machine and the DB2400 database on the IBM i.
>
> I can't say what kind of a performance difference there would be between these two options.
>
> Kelly Cookson
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> Dot Foods, Inc.
> 217-773-4486 x12676
> www.dotfoods.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Deskevich
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 3:12 PM
> To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Calling a stored procedure that exists ontheAs/400fromPHP
>
> Please forgive my ignorance. Do you mean which zend client that I develop in
> using Windows?
> I don't think I need anything installed on Windows if I am developing and
> running my scripts straight off the i.
> Maybe someone else can chime in if I am misleading you...
>
> Tom Deskevich