p. The latest version of Zend’s flagship IDE for PHP development has bee released for i5/OS. Click on inside for all the juciy details.

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

Andi Gutmans, co-founder of Zend, my boss, and all around nice guy, has recorded a podcast with James Governor and Coté of RedMonk. Click on inside and I’ll give you the skinny.

p. Alan Seiden over at MC|Press has released an article detailing the virtues of the powerful mail() function for System i users. Click on inside and we’ll talk about it.

p. Alex Woodie, over at itjungle.com, has just published an article on the progress of PHP on System i. Come on inside and I’ll give you the Executive Briefing.

p. MySQL is an open source database that has gained popularity in the web application world and is used in most of the leading/hot PHP (Hypertext Pre Processor) applications. Now that System i is a supported hardware platform for PHP with the availability of Zend Core for i5/OS, we have documented instructions for downloading, installing and running MySQL in the Portable Application Solution Environment (PASE) on the System i. MySQL is not an IBM i5/OS supported environment, use accordingly.

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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.

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Every now and then you find a gem stuffed way back in the back of the forums. I came across this one and since it solves a problem that I’ve seen asked more than once I thoght I’d post it here for all to see. (and thanks to Mike for the imformative post.