Developers may wonder if mastering a framework is worth the learning curve. This webinar will review the basics and reasons why the effort will be repaid. Learn how to build applications that are well-architected, flexible, and maintainable from an i5 perspective. Code examples will be reviewed of how to easily connect to DB2, Adobe AMF, and other i5 specific ZF code.

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This webinar will show you how take advantage of one of the most powerful tools within PHP. As RPG has only recently gotten into multi-dimensional arrays, PHP has been exploiting the concept for years. Topics to be covered in detail will include a review of most of the 70+ array functions, in depth use of the FOREACH function and a several side by side examples comparing RPG arrays to PHP arrays.

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This introductory webcast will discuss the steps necessary to install Zend Core to immediately enable PHP development on any IBM i running V5R3 or better. The Zend Stack will be reviewed including Zend Core, Zend Studio for Eclipse i5 Edition and Zend Platform. Basic PHP script creation and operation through the stack will be discussed. Additional concepts include the debugger, an overview of the PASE, general troubleshooting and basic script creation and operation through the Zend Stack.

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The PHP open source web development language, once considered only a hobbyist language, has moved into the mainstream and is being adopted broadly by enterprise customers and the IBM i community. This session discusses the value of PHP in the enterprise and how midrange shops can leverage the power of PHP and IBM Power Systems to help their own enterprises flourish in ways that had not been considered in the past.

We will explore how PHP is implemented, where PHP is used and what the support model is from both corporate America and the community. The speaker for this webinar is Mike Pavlak, who has been working with IBM midrange solutions since 1992 and IBM Mainframes before that. Mike has developed applications using RPG, CL and PHP and for the last several years has managed IT development and operations for Tripp Lite. Recently, Mike joined Zend as a Solutions Consultant.

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Communicating with your suppliers can be easier, and best of all it can save you time and money. Join NSC, Inc. along with Zend Technologies to learn this exciting new way of improving productivity. Including keynote speakers Tim Nies and Eric Nies who have years of experience in software development and PHP, to show you how to improve your vendor productivity today. This webinar will also be comprised of a compelling real-life account from a manufacturing company demonstrating how this process has changed the way they communicate with their suppliers.  A question and answer session will follow the webinar.
Presented by  Tim Nies and Eric Nies, NSC Inc.

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As the Director of IT at Trippelite I never considered researching Platform for i5/OS. Knowing what I NOW do Platform would have increased the productivity of my developers, shortened the time to production of PHP apps, and eased the transition to PHP from RPG. In this presentation I will guide you through the functionality that most leverages the i5 shop’s investments in people and hardware.
Presented by Mike Pavlak, Sales Engineer for Zend Technologies.

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Jon Paris, co-founder of Partner400 and RPG Expert, will discuss Zend’s 5250 Bridge.  He will provide a brief 5250 Bridge technical overview and touch on how to use the 5250 Bridge API's in PHP script.  Additionally, Jon will illustrate, step by step, how to start a 5250 session, interact with the 5250 data stream, and display an HTML view of a sample RPG program bundled with the product.

Learn how to:

• Get input/output fields info
• Assign a value to an input field
• Send a function key action
• Run multiple applications from a PHP program
• Create and display an HTML for a 5250 screen display
• Add an image to an HTML page.

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More and more organizations are focusing on how to leverage their i5/OS investment in order to better connect with the employees, customers, and partners. Creating web-based applications utilizing both DB2/400 data and green screen applications is one of the quickest means to accomplish this.

Zend and IBM have collaborated to create a solution suite enabling customers to rapidly produce large, complex web-based applications. Not only will companies be able to leverage their business logic and infrastructure on which these applications exist but also being able to easily provide their existing resources with a skill set in-demand in the marketplace.

This webinar articulates a methodology to develop and deploy standards-based PHP applications, and Zend’s solutions to deliver on SLAs for business critical applications. When organizations take on a new technology like PHP, then move down the operational maturity curve, and the goal of these best practices is to re-achieve the same level of maturity within 3-6 months while developing, debugging, deploying and managing these web-enabled applications.

Presented by Siddhartha Agarwal, VP Americas Field Operations, Zend Technologies

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