The PHP Solution for i5/OS

Zend and IBM have partnered to deliver Zend Core for i5/OS, a high quality PHP 5 stack that provides System i businesses with a production quality solution for deployment and management of modern Web applications. For businesses who rely on System i, Zend for i5/OS is the most productive and cost-effective solution to rapid Web enablement and the integration of Web Services supporting SOA.  Zend Core for i5/OS has been enhanced with critical features to take advantage of i5/OS specific resources and capabilities such as an i5 toolkit to access DB2 and applications running on i5/OS.

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New Version 2.6

Zend Core for i5/OS 2.6 has new features and capabilities further enhancing the PHP solution for the IBM i.

New features and enhancements include:

• Latest PHP version - PHP 5.2.6 represents the most advanced certified PHP to date
• New PHP extensions - Improving usability, portability and productivity of your PHP application projects on the IBM i
  
• ImageMagick - gives you image conversion capabilities such as image resizing, thumbnail creation and more.  It also allows you to automatically generate PDF documents!
• pSpell - Is a spell checker utility extension allowing you to add sp[ell check capabilities to your applications
  
• PDO_IBM updated - The implementation of the PDO_IBM abstraction layer for connecting to DB2/400 adds improved portability for your application projects.
• Zend Framework 1.6 - Latest release of Zend Framework
  
• DB2/400 native adapter - Access DB2/400 data directly from Zend Framework deployed on the IBM i
  

i5/OS Special Features

In addition to features available in Zend Core, Zend Core for i5/OS includes specific features and capabilities tailored for the i/5OS:

• A PHP Toolkit that enables you to call RPG/COBOL applications, system objects and data queues; complete with samples, templates and demo applicaiton
  
• IBM DB2 PHP extension version 1.6
• Example code and templates specific for the i5
• Free Silver-level technical support for all i5/OS customers