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The ZendCon Sessions Episode 4: IBM DB2 with PHP 5.2 and AJAX

We hope you enjoy today’s episode of The ZendCon Sessions as we listen to Thornsten Rinne present “IBM DB2 with PHP 5.2 and AJAX”.

Use Ajax with PHP and DB2 9 - Xajax

Over at developerWorks, Deepak Vohra has written an excellent primer on getting up and running with PHP, ajax and IBM’s DB2-9. Let’s take a look at it.

Performance case study using Zend Core for IBM with IBM DB2 9 to service 10,000 active database connections

PHP is the market-leading dynamic language for producing modern Web applications. Its popularity for building content management and e-commerce systems stems from its portability, ease of use, and wide support for accessing database and enterprise data sources. IBM and Zend Technologies have partnered to deliver Zend Core for IBM®, which is the industry's only certified and fully supported PHP development and production environment for IBM data servers.

Zend and IBM host a Webcast

Are you interested in learning more about PHP, XML, DB2 and other members of the alphabet soup? Are you looking to build and deploy highly scalable PHP applications? Are you looking to kill an hour while you feign work? If any of these describe you, click through for information on a new webcast.

Work with XML Data in the Zend Framework

One of the incubator projects in the Zend Framework is Zend_Db_Xml. Zend_Db_Xml, also known as the XML Content Store (XCS), allows web applications that use XML data to easily update, save, and otherwise manage this data. In this article I will introduce the XCS persistence API and discuss an implementation using IBM’s DB2 9 database with its pureXML technology. Finally, I’ll discuss a sample social networking application to show how easy and fun it is to develop XML-centric applications using the XCS.

DB2 for i5/OS sample

Now that you have PHP, Zend Core, and DB2 up and running on i5/OS you need something to run on it. Here is a sample application you can play with that shows off these complimenting technologies.

Do You Really Need a Database?

The PHP Blog posted an article a little while ago titled “PHP & MySQL are not Peanut Butter & Jelly”. The gist of the article is that PHP and MySQL are not joined at the hip and that programmers needlessly rely on databases for projects that don’t necessarily require them. Whoops, I may have said to much. To get more, you’ll have to click the [ more ] link.

Extra! Extra! PHP and DB2 on i5/OS!

Attention i5/OS fans! IBM has just released an article on how to use PHP and DB2 on i5/OS. If you’ve been scratching your noggin about this topic then scratch no more, help is here. Titled “Use PHP scripts to access DB2 UDB for iSeries data with Zend Core for i5/OS” it’s a great primer to get you up and running with these powerful technologies.

FREE BOOK! "Developing PHP Applications for IBM Data Servers"

Is there anything IBM won’t do for attention? Now they’ve taken to publishing high-quality PHP books for free on their site. Ok, so it’s not your standard light reading fare. It won’t replace re-runs of “Full House” as the most mindless way to pass the time. It is, however a code-packed tome about an interesting subject. Follow me down the rabbit hole for more info. (Click the little link down there that says [ more ])

New Zend Core for IBM and Oracle

Zend (in case you don’t read the URL, the owner of this site) has just announced new version of Core for both IBM and Oralce. Zend Core is a fully tested and enhanced version of the open source PHP. It is packaged to make the software installation easier and faster with instant PHP setup.