This is the first book to comprehensively address PHP and how it canandshouldbe deployed on the IBM i. With this IBM ispecific point of view theauthors examine ... » 

This is the first book to comprehensively address PHP and how it canandshouldbe deployed on the IBM i. With this IBM ispecific point of view theauthors examine how to transfer skills from a green screen environment to theWeb become intimately familiar with PHPs commonly used features and helpstart down the road of highly interactive Webbased applicationdevelopment.For decades the green screen has been the ubiquitous interfaceinto an organizations data. But with the advent of HTML the Internet and thebrowser combined with the end users existing familiarity with the Web greenscreen developers are seeing much of the demand for their skills diminish infavor of more Webenabled technologies. One of those technologies is the PHPprogramming language.A flexible forgiving programming style makes PHPeasier to learn and is just one of the many reasons PHP tops the list whendevelopers seek to improve their Webrelated skills. While not limited to Webdevelopment PHP is designed from the ground up to be the ideal environment toeasily build simple or complex Webbased applications in the most effectivemanner possible while still giving programmers the control they need.Withthis book you will learn to Build basic PHP applications and how tostructure them Access local and remote resources as well as external datasources Manage persistence between requests and the life of an individualrequest from browser to server to browser Tap System i DB2 database tablesfrom PHP Install and access MySQL databases on the System i «