Re: Social media and RPG

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> It is also available in Italian!  :-)

Is the Italian version the same as the english one except you are ONLY
wearing pepperoni and french bread?

Ok, that was a bad attempt at humor.  But it is Friday :-)

Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Mike Pavlak <mike.p@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kelly,
>
> I have it running and I have a webcast that walks you through the setup.  Happy to answer any questions on this.
>
> http://www.zend.com/en/resources/webinars/i5-os
>
> Bring your Intranet to the IBM i with Drupal and Zend Server
>
> It is also available in Italian!  :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>
> mike.p@xxxxxxxx   Cell: (408)679-1011    Office: (630)928-1476
>
> Zend Server for IBM i avilable at http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/zend-server-5-new-ibmi
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kelly Cookson
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:06 AM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Social media and RPG
>
> I'm all for people having the tools to roll their own social media on the IBMi. Different strokes for different folks.
>
> However, if I personally needed to run social media on an IBMi platform, I'd look at running open source packages via the Zend PHP server and MySQL database.
>
> I've used Drupal on other platforms and like it quite a bit. Drupal provides polls, forums, blogs, wiki books, wiki-like pages, customizable user profiles, contact pages, and RSS feeds all out-of-the box and administered by a menu. There are also many modules you can install to enhance Drupal capabilities.
>
> I also like MediaWiki--the same wiki software used by Wikipedia. People who are familiar with Wikipedia feel right at home with MediaWiki. There are also extensions to enhance the capabilities of Mediawiki.
>
> There are other packages such as WordPress and Joomla that should, in theory, run on the IBMi via Zend PHP and MySQL. Also, there are a number of bulletin boards and email lists that are written in PHP and use MySQL.
>
> I'm curious if anyone has used the Zend PHP server and MySQL database to run Drupal and/or MediaWiki on the IBMi.
>
> Kelly Cookson
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> Dot Foods, Inc.
> 217-773-4486 x12676
> www.dotfoods.com
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