Rochester Labs - March 13, 14 2007
PHP on System i & Workshops

Speaker - Michael SANDBERG, IBM Senior Accredited IT Specialist.
Michael Sandberg is a technical consultant working for IBM ISV Business Strategy and Enablement (BSE), located in Rochester Minnesota USA. For the past six years, he has been involved in supporting System i solution providers as they enhance and innovate their applications. As part of this work, he has accumulated technical expertise in the WDHT (IBM WebFacing Deployment Tool with HATS Technology), PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor), and other technologies that focus on application innovation for the System i platform.
Day 1 / Tuesday 13 March 2007
9:00 to 9:30 Welcome Coffee
9:30 to 10:50 Introduction to PHP and Zend for i5/OS
This session is an introduction to PHP on System i and the products required to support the environment. The first topic to be discussed will be PHP; what it is, what can be accomplished with PHP, and it's positioning among competing technologies. The second topic will be an introduction to Zend and the Zend for i5/OS environment. The final topic will be a discussion on why System i for PHP.
10:50 to 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 to 12:30 Installation and Administration of Zend for i5/OS (PHP)
Zend for i5/OS is the set of products that supports PHP on the System i. This session will cover how to obtain & install Zend Core for i5/OS and Zend Studio for i5/OS. Administration and Troubleshooting of the environment will also be discussed.
12:30 to 13:30 Lunch
13:30 to 14:50 Developing PHP applications for System i
Developing PHP applications for System i covers a range of topics associate with PHP application development. The opening topic will be a short review of the System i Developer Roadmap and how PHP fits. Following will be an introduction to the PHP language and its syntax and how PHP can be used in quality application development architecture. The last set of topics covered is the PHP Toolkit for System i APIs with basic syntax examples through Zend Studio for i5/OS.
14:50 to 15:10 Coffee break
15:10 to 16:30 System i PHP Security, Globalization, and Porting considerations
PHP on System i is a new environment and such demands careful consideration on a number of topics. This session will cover an analysis of security of a default PHP environment and how to make it more secure. At a higher level globalization and porting considerations will be discussed.

Day 2 - Wednesday 14 March 2007 - Hands on workshop

9:00 to 9:30 Welcome Coffee and 12:30 to 13:30 Lunch
10:50 and 14:50 Coffee breaks

9:30 to 12:30 - PHP Development Labs
13:30 to 16:30 - Identical second session
This sequence of labs covers troubleshooting the deployed environment, Zend Studio for i5/OS for PHP programming, Utilizing the PHP Toolkit for System i APIs, and using the Zend Studio for i5/OS debugger capability. While familiarity with web environments, PHP, and the System i would be useful, none are needed to complete these labs. NB: This is not a PHP language programming course.
Troubleshooting Lab ~30 min
Developing with Zend Studio Lab ~60 min
Accessing i5/OS resources with the PHP Toolkit Lab ~60 min
Zend Studio Debugger Lab ~30 min