Welcome to the Zend IBM i Newsletter - a newsletter dedicated to PHP for the IBM i community.

NOTEWORTHY NEWS

Zend Server 6 Beta is here – deploy, monitor and manage PHP applications like never before!

Zend Server 6 is available now for evaluation on Windows and Linux and will be available on IBM i in early 2013! Some of the new features include the ability to organize access to Zend Server by role, leverage LDAP authentication and generate statistics on application and web site usage.

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Announcing Zend Studio 10 - design web and mobile apps faster

Zend Studio 10 Beta is also available for download. The new wizard helps build an end-to-end mobile application in minutes. Leveraging an open source library, you can build, test and deploy a project in Zend Studio to any of the three major handhelds.

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PHP 2012 Conference Wrap-up

ZendCon 2012 was our biggest conference ever with PHP community members and business leaders from around the world attending the wide variety of technical sessions and events. A special track of sessions discussed leveraging the best of both PHP and IBM i. Thanks go to our sponsors including IBM and BCD. Want to get a taste of the conference?

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UPCOMING WEBINARS

WEBINAR: Restful Web Services with PHP and IBM i
January 16, 2013 - 9:00am PST, 12:00pm EST, 5:00pm GMT, 6:00pm CET

Mike Pavlak will explore the transfer of information across systems, using web services and IBM i. Inter- and intra-system communication of data will be explored as well as the ease in which a web services layer can be implemented.

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WEBINAR: Building Secure Web Applications with ZF2
January 23, 2013 - 7:30am PST, 10:30am EST, 3:30pm GMT, 4:30pm CET

Security is a very important aspect of web applications and is not only limited to "filter the input and escape the output". This webinar we will present the security features of Zend Framework 2 that can help PHP developers to build secure web applications.

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UPCOMING TRAINING

Online trainings offer students the opportunity to learn from expert instructors in 2 hr per day sessions. Courses offer real-life examples and interactive hands-on training to sharpen existing skills and add new ones.

PHP I: Foundations (IBM i /OS Programmers)

This course provides ILE programmers with a solid foundation in the PHP language. This course guides students through the basics of PHP with numerous examples and hands-on exercises, and makes frequent reference to the similarities and differences between the PHP and RPG languages.
Jan. 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, Feb. 1, 4, 6 & 8

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PHP II: Higher Structures Training

This class is designed for novice PHP developers who want to further advance their skills in the PHP language and already know the basics of PHP syntax, language constructs, and web site functionality.
Jan. 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 21, 23 & 25
Jan. 28, 30, Feb. 1, 4, 6, 8, 11, 13 & 15

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RESOURCES

Zend Smart Start: accelerating time-to-PHP and Zend

Zend Professional Services offers Zend Smart Start for IBM i - designed to help customers who rely on the power of IBM i to rapidly modernize and adopt PHP for their web application projects.

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Recorded webinars about PHP on IBM

Check out recorded webinars on topics like open source installation, Zend Server for IBM i, RPG report migration to the Web, and much more.

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