p. If you are in the i5 community then you know the name Erwin Earley. Recently Erwin published an article on itjungle.com on using the Zend Framework. Click on inside and let’s take a look.

p. 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

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).

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

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.

p. 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.

p. 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.

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

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