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September Boston PHP User Group:: Building the PHP-stack for the enterprise

PHP has become ubiquitous when it comes to personal blogs, content management systems, ecommerce sites and more. Take any list of Web 2.01 sites and you’ll find that more than 50% have PHP as back-end technology. What is less known is that PHP is also making significant inroads in the enterprise. Join BostonPHP, IBM and Zend as we discuss where Enterprise PHP (and OSS) is going and how it’s going to get there. This promises to be a great evening with plenty of “horsepower” to answer your questions

Zend Core for IBM and Web 2.0 Starter Toolkit

Check-out the Web 2.0 Starter Toolkit, it offers a great start to reducing the coding yet helps you produce cool applications using Ajax, ATOM feeds and REST Web Services. It is a great on-ramp to get you working with Zend Core and IBM DB2 Express-C and Rich Internet Applications (RIA).

Zend Core for IBM 2.0.1 released.

Zend announced today the release of Zend Core for IBM 2.0.1. This release contains Core 2.0 and 2.0.1 functionality and improvements.

TCM.net talks about PHP and the System i Community.

TCM.nnet has published an article talking about the cooperation between Zend and IBM to bring PHP to the System i community.

Integrating PHP with System i using Web Services

As is the case with most development teams tasked with maintaining legacy applications, most System i shops continue to maintain valuable data that is trapped within their legacy applications. In most cases, these applications are not easily integrated with outsides applications or services. However, System i developers now have a new tool in their toolbox, PHP. PHP provides the tools System i developers need to easily expose their data and services to external applications via Web Services. Utilizing PHP and Zend’s developer tools, Web Services can easily be written to wrap existing programs.

developerWorks: A Step-By-Step Guide to Publishing Your Own PEAR Channels

IBM’s developerWorks is at it again, they have recently published a well-written, in-depth article on how to publish your own PEAR channel. Click on inside, I’ll share the relevant details.

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.

IBM: Convert XML to JSON in PHP

IBM’s developerWorks has posted and interesting article on converting XML to JSON using PHP. Click on inside and let’s discuss it.

Zend Announces i5/OS V5R3 Compatibility, PHP Redbook, and RPG Web Cast

Three announcements from Zend and IBM all rolled into one. Click on inside, I’ll give you details and URLS.

U2 PDO Driver parts 1 and 2

IBM’s developerWorks has posted part two of their two-part tutorial on PDO and U2. Click on inside, I’ll give you the URLs and a quick overview.