Zend Products and PHP for IBMi

Zend Products and PHP for IBMi

Shlomo Vanunu
Zend Global Services
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• Shlomo Vanunu is a senior consultant in the Zend lab
located in Ramat Gan Israel and is a part of the i5 Global
Services Team, involved in the development of the Zend for
i5/OS installation base for IBMi.
• At the Zend IBMi Global Services, he provides technical
services support and education for Zend Products for IBMi
and related technologies on IBMi.
• Shlomo has worked in the IT industry for 25 years and has
experience with IBMi OS, programming and several other OS
variants.

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Agenda

• IBM/ZEND Relationship and Offering
• Zend Server/Studio Integration
• Open Source Toolkit/Compatibility Wrapper
• Zend Framework
• QA


Increasing the Maturity of the PHP Application Lifecycle

A PHP Server for The RightScale Zend A professional-grade
business-critical PHP PHP Solution Pack development environment
applications that require enables you to easily that includes PHP code
performance, reliability manage a PHP runtime editing, debugging, profili
and security. environment in the ng, unit
cloud. testing, diagnostics and
more.


Zend Server 5.6 for IBMi
Key Features
Shipping with IBMi 6.1 & 7.1

New Open Source Toolkit

Performance enhancements

PHP 5.3.8

Zend Framework 1.11.3

Application Deployment

PTF Update as well as full package
• Hotfix


Zend Server 5.6 for IBMi

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Zend Products for IBMi Prerequisites
• Prerequisite IBMi License programs –
GO LICPGM  Select option 10. Display installed licensed programs

• Check the list of installed license programs:
5722SS1 30 Qshell
5722SS1 33 Portable App Solutions Environment
5722SS1 13 System Openness Includes
5722DG1 *BASE IBM HTTP Server for i5/OS
5733SC1 *BASE IBM Portable Utilities for i5/OS

5733SC1 1 OpenSSH, OpenSSL, zlib

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Installation
• Interactive Installation
RSTLICPGM LICPGM(2ZSVRPI) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(QGPL/ZSVRSAVF)

• Objects created
The ZENDSVR library,
/usr/local/Zendsvr directory,
/www/zendsvr directory (web document root)
Zend-supplied user profiles
The Zendsvr subsystem and the HTTP servers
• Batch/Silent Install
SBMJOB (RSTLICPGM LICPGM(2ZSVRPI) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(QGPL/ZSVRSAVF))


Configuration - Setup Menu


Zend Server, Zend Studio
Integration

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Zend Server Integration

• Zend Server
 A value-added PHP install for IBMi, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X

 Community Edition (CE) and regular edition

 Installs a copy of Zend Framework
• PHP.INI specifies “/usr/local/zendsvr/share/ZendFramework/” in its
include_path variable
• All your PHP applications will be able to find the /library/zend folder without
any further work

• http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/


Zend Studio Integration

• Zend Studio
 Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

 IBMi edition is free thanks to IBM/Zend relationship

 Also installs its own copy of Zend Framework! (on your PC)

• http://www.zend.com/en/products/studio/


Zend Framework

• Zend Framework
Can work with any PHP 5.x installation, but of course it works
best with the Zend Products for IBMi
Installed automatically with Zend Server for IBMi
/usr/local/zendsvr/share/ZendFramework/library/zend
Updates available at
http://framework.zend.com/download/latest
Unzip into /usr/local… (see above) or your ZF library folder

• www.framework.zend.com


Zend DBi

• Drop in replacement for MySQL
• Updates existing MySQL installation
• DB2 storage engine included


Zend DBi – DB2/MySQL
• Zend DBi: MySQL Replacement for IBMi
Use PHP's most popular database on the IBMi
MySQL has become the most commonly used database for PHP applications.

Zend's commitment to the IBMi platform, Zend DBi is available as a compatible
drop-in replacement for MySQL on IBMi.
Zend DBi erases any uncertainty about the future of IBMi as a supported MySQL
platform:
 built using the same open-source code used to build MySQL, and will be kept
up to date by Zend and IBM with all features and bug fixes introduced in
MySQL.
Zend DBi is part of the enterprise-ready PHP technology stack for IBMi that
allows users to leverage open and industry standard solutions, while keeping
their web and mobile workloads on existing IBMi systems where
databases, business logic, and legacy applications reside.


PHP Open Source Toolkit
Access your IBMi


Open Source PHP Toolkit

• Open Source!
Community Involvement can improve it

Customer can tweak!

Usher new era for IBMi developer!!!

• Collaboration between IBM and Zend
• Built on ILE RPG, Stored procedures and pure PHP
• Speed improvement over current toolkit
• Cross Platform Solution, run PHP scripts on desktop to IBMi
• Object Oriented, but not too much!


New Toolkit Has Two Components
• IBM
XML Service

• Zend
Series of classes that “wrap” the IBM project

ToolkitService() Class

Zend built the PHP wrapper

Let your i5 functions use the new toolkit under the covers

• No OO training required to use them!!!
• Need IBM PTF’s! (See Release Notes!)


XML Service lives at YiPs!


Get your own copy of the code!
• RPG, XML & Stored Procedures

http://www.youngiprofessionals.com


Toolkit Architecture

DB2
DB2 Extension
Functions
or ODBC DRDA DB2
XML
Stored
PHP Procedures
OO &
Classes
Program Data
Toolkit
Calls
API
XML
HLL’s
OO Request RPG, COBOL
i5 RPG
Compatibility XMLSERVICE
functions
Wrapper System
Parm Data
Artifacts


What are the major components?

• Program calls
• Operating System functions
• SQL access


Toolkit Overview

• Setting Database Connections
 $ToolkitServiceObj =
ToolkitService::getInstance($Host, $USER, $PASSWORD”, $ExtensionPrefix)


• Setting the XML Service Options
 $ToolkitServiceObj->setToolkitServiceParams(array('lib=>$XMLServiceLib 'plug' =>
$Plug, internalKey'=>$InternalKey, controlkey'=>$ControlKey, 'debugflag'=>$debug, 'lang
uage'=>$Encoding));

 include_once 'authorization.php';
include_once '../API/ToolkitService.php';

$ToolkitServiceObj =
ToolkitService::getInstance(“*LOCAL”, “USER”, “PASSWORD”, “ibm_db2”);


Toolkit Overview
• The CLCommand Method

CLInteractiveCommand – Will return the command message or
command return values.
$message = $obj->CLInteractiveCommand($Command);

CLcommand – Will run the command in the batch without returning
command messages or command return values.
$obj->CLCommand($Command);


Toolkit Overview
• The PGMCall Method
The program call method allows calling a program (*PGM) or service
program (*SRVPGM).

PgmCall($Program, $Library, $Parameters, $ReturnValue, $Function)

Define Program Parameters Methods
The AddParameterPackDec
The AddParameterZoned
The AddParameterInt
The AddParameterUInt
The AddParameterFloat
The AddParameterBin
The AddDataStructure
The SetParameterValue


Toolkit Overview
• Define Program Parameters Methods
AddParameterChar Method
AddParameterChar( $IOType, , $Size, $Comment, $Name, $Value);

AddParameterPackDec Method
AddParameterPackDec ($IOType, , $Size, $Comment, $Name, $Value) ;

AddParameterZoned Method
AddParameterZoned ($IOType, , $Size, $Comment, $Name, $Value)
$param[] = $ToolkitServiceObj->AddParameterPackDec('both',12,2,'CheckAmt', 'amount', '2000.25');

SetParameterValue
SetParameterValue ($Name, $Value)
$ToolkitServiceObj->SetParameterValue('code', '2');

$ToolkitServiceObj->disconnect()


Samples!
• Located off the document root in directory NewToolkit!
• Contains sample program call, etc…


Zend Framework


Overview

• Zend Framework
 Open source framework

 Develop secure web applications and web services with PHP 5

 Implemented using object oriented code and design

• Unique component structure
Each component designed with few dependencies on other
components
Many loosely coupled components that you can use more or less
independently or “use-at-will”


Overview

• Zend Framework also
Provides an advanced Model-View-Controller (MVC)
implementation
Used to establish a basic structure for your Zend Framework
applications
A database abstraction that is simple to use

Forms/Views components that implements HTML form rendering

Validation and Filtering

Allows developers to consolidates all operations


Overview

• Zend Framework Components list


Resources
• Recorded Webinars
http://www.zend.com/en/resources/webinars/i5-os

• Zend Server for IBM i main page, link to downloads
http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/zend-server-ibm-i

• Zend Server manual:
PDF: http://www.zend.com/topics/Zend-Server-5-for-IBMi-Reference-Manual.pdf

Online: http://files.zend.com/help/Zend-Server-5/zend-
server.htm#installation_guide.htm


Books!

• Gutmans - PHP 5 Power Programming
• White - PHP 5 in Practice
• Schroeder/Olen – The IBM i

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