Re: Ibm i Xml toolkit for Php

That would be my impression too Richard with some exceptions.

I see no reason why the stored procedure interface cannot be used by any platform that supports ODBC which surely includes Linux? For that matter it will work I suspect with any platform that has DB2 Connect enabled.

I have not studied the code or asked Alan but I suspect that the native version simply maps the database calls to the bull-in equivalent of DB2 Connect features.

As you say it should always work via the REST interface.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Dec 12, 2016, at 9:32 AM, Richard Schoen <Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks.

I'm pretty familiar with XMLSERVICE since I wrote a .Net wrapper around it.

I just hadn't played with the PHP wrappers since I haven't done much PHP to date.

From my testing it looks like:

-XML toolkit works natively on IBM i

- XML Toolkit will work with PHP on Windows via the ODBC driver or using the HTTP CGI program XMLCGI.PGM.

-I'm supposing that XML toolkit will then work with PHP on Linux or any other platform using the HTTP CGI program as well. Since it's communicating via the HTTP layer there appear to be no additional driver requirements. I'll test that theory.

I'm writing a couple of PHP technical sessions so I'll share and expand on what I learned from Alan's presentations and during my own testing as well.

Regards,


Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com

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message: 2
date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 13:18:41 -0500
from: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Ibm i Xml toolkit for Php

The PHP toolkit is based on XMLSERVICE which can be used from any platform. The basic answers you need are on this page I think http://yips.idevcloud.com/wiki/index.php/XMLService/XMLService - and based on my experience - I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work no matter what platform you run on.

There are two interfaces available - REST-type web service and stored procedure. If I remember correctly the web service just calls the stored procedure under the covers.

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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