Advanced Functions of DB2 with PHP on IBM i IBM has quietly been sneaking many incredible features to DB2 on IBM i. This webinar explores some of the more useful new features that can make data mining or general DB2 usage a breeze. Presenter – Mike Pavlak (56 min) - May 02, 2012     Presentation slides

Stored Procedures with PHP and IBM i - Part II In the first Stored Procedures webinar, Mike Pavlak explored SQL Stored Procedures and how they get implemented and consumed by PHP running on IBM i. In this follow-up session, Mike explores the creation and usage of RPG programs as stored procedures and how they get implemented in a PHP application running on or off IBM i. Presenter – Mike Pavlak (38 min) - April 12, 2012     Presentation slides

Performance Tuning PHP on IBM i In this webinar, Mike Pavlak and Alan Seiden discuss some of the more fundamental areas that reveal performance bottlenecks. They explore hardware, software and configuration options that will help your PHP applications fly. The discussion reviews features for both Zend Server and Zend Server CE. Presenters – Mike Pavlak & Alan Seiden (60 min) - March 6, 2012     Presentation slides

Application Deployment on IBM i Learn how application deployment can automate the process of rolling in or out a full PHP application within your web server environment and see how to implement this solution on IBM using native features. This webinar walks through the process of building a deployment package and implementing it on Zend Server for IBM i.   Presenter – Mike Pavlak - (44 min) February 15, 2012      Presentation slides

Zend Server for IBM i 5.6 Update Zend and IBM have been VERY busy plugging all kinds of goodies into Zend Server for IBM i. In this webcast, Mike Pavlak takes you on a tour of the new features of Zend Server 5.6. He will explore the new Open Source Toolkit, the new MySQL implementation called Zend DBi and the newest star of the Zend Server realm: Application Deployment.   Presenter – Mike Pavlak - (60 min) January 26, 2012      Presentation slides

IBM i Stored Procedures for PHP and Zend Server Stored procedures have been around for a long time. In this webinar we explore many examples of accessing Stored Procedures from PHP applications running on IBM i. Parameter passing and record set access will be explored from SQL and RPG stored procedures, and much more. Presenter – Mike Pavlak (55 min) December 14, 2011      Presentation slides

How do I securely deploy Internet websites in PHP on IBMi? This session discusses how to set up and administer the networking, Apache Configurations, work management and IBM i security in order to support a PHP environment on IBM i. Presenters – Jim Oberholtzer, CTA at Agile Technology Architects, LLC & Mike Pavlak, Zend Technologies (60 min) - October 05, 2011      Presentation slides

Collaborative Open Source PHP on IBM i Open Source applications are a great way to get a jump start on the project backlog and really leverage on organizations investment in IBM i.  In this presentation, Mike Pavlak explores even more opportunities to consolidate workload onto IBM I and Mike will show how to leverage that investment with a look at two collaborative applications from the open source PHP world. Presenter – Mike Pavlak (45 min) September 13 2011      Presentation slides

A Tale of Two Toolkits. Have you heard of the exciting new open source XML Toolkit currently being developed in collaboration between IBM and Zend? Are you curious about how it works and what you need to get started? Are you aware that it is available in Zend Server 5.1 as a beta and soon to be released as GA? Well rest assured, Mike Pavlak will fill you in on the details and a little bit more. Presenter – Mike Pavlak (59 min) August 24 2011      Presentation slides

The Ideal Development Environment for IBM i Programmers The development environment for PHP begins with Zend Studio. But then where do we go? In this presentation, Mike Pavlak will explore several of the key productivity features of Zend Studio for IBM i. In addition, a discussion of plug-ins and add-ons will round out the experience. Remote project creation and code portability will also be reviewed. Presenter – Mike Pavlak, Michael Scarpato    (50 min) July 17 2011      Presentation slides

Introduction to OOP for IBM i Programmers This presentation builds upon basic skills and begins to explore the very powerful Object Oriented model of the PHP. Fundamental Object Oriented concepts will be discussed along with practical examples. The session wraps with an real life implementation of an open source class taken from a public forum and loaded on IBM i. This is a great session to allay any fears about how to implement the optional OO model of PHP in an IBM i shop! This session is a great primer for anyone looking to explore Zend Framework and has little to no Object Oriented experience.   Presenter – Mike Pavlak   (65 min) June 1, 2011     Presentation slides

The First 5 Steps to Get Started with PHP on IBM i (IBM i Webinar Series Part 2) This webinar is part 2 in a series of webinars about PHP and IBM i. In this presentation, Mike Pavlak will focus on the five steps you need to build your first PHP application on IBM i. Presenter – Mike Pavlak  (62 min) March 23, 2011       Presentation slides

Your First Zend Framework Project on IBM i Zend Framework (ZF) provides a free, powerful structure for PHP Applications on IBM i. Developers love ZF's flexibility, but that flexibilty sometimes leaves first-time ZF users not knowing where to begin. Fortunately, it's not difficult after you've seen how it's done. This presentation will go step by step through creating a basic PHP application with ZF. This webinar will include: * How to download ZF or find it on IBM i * How to automatically generate ZF's directory structure * How to configure the application to access db2 and display database results.   Presenter – Mike Pavlak and Alan Seiden   (60 min) March 9, 2011       Presentation slides

Top 5 Reasons To Use PHP On IBM i This is the first in a series of webinars that answers the question “Why PHP on IBM i”. The webinar will focus on why and how PHP can help modernize your legacy app on IBM i.   Presenter –  Mike Pavlak (62 min) Feb 28 2011      Presentation slides

IBM i Modernization Using PHP Join Zend Solution Consultant Mike Pavlak and his very special guest Alison Butterill, IBM’s Power Systems Application Development Offering Mgr, for this strategic update. Mike and Alison will introduce some of the key features of Zend Server and share a behind-the-scenes discussion of how the new Fast CGI PHP architecture was implemented. Mike and Alison will also share what several customers are doing with PHP on their IBM i and show how virtually any IBM i shop can start building PHP examples in as little as 1 hour! Presenters - Mike Pavlak ( 62 min)      Presentation slides

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Bring your Intranet to the IBM i with Drupal and Zend Server Come see how easy it is to add an Intranet to your IBM i. No need for additional hardware or expensive software. Drupal is the hottest PHP open source content management system on the planet. This session will walk you through the steps necessary to download, install and configure a basic Drupal site. Presenter - Mike Pavlak (63 min)      Presentation slides

Improving Application Performance - Submitting PHP scripts to Batch using Zend Server 5 for IBM i Have you ever wanted to spawn a process to the “background” to save interactive user cycles in a 5250 application? What about in a PHP application? Few people are aware that there are multiple ways of achieving this in a PHP application on IBM i. This session will discuss how to spawn and run batch PHP processes on IBM i to optimize the interactive user experience. Learn how to leverage the multi-user capabilities of the IBM i and Zend Server infrastructure to help improve overall application performance. Presenter – Mike Pavlak        Presentation slides

Harnessing the Power of Zend Server 5 for IBM i This webinar will help you harness the power of the new Zend Server 5 for IBM i! Whether you are just getting started with PHP or are very experienced working with PHP on IBM i, this presentation will present tips and tools for deploying a complete PHP stack in minutes; pin-pointing, diagnosing and resolving application problems quickly; and achieving significant performance gains for your PHP applications. Features to be demonstrated include code tracing, code acceleration, Job Queue and full-page caching that is ideal for content management applications. Zend Server installation requirements and common issues with application migration will be addressed. Presenter – Mike Pavlak      Presentation slides

Zend Studio, Zend Server and i This webinar will focus on the many key features used to develop applications using Zend Studio and IBM i. We will also explore the integration features of Zend Server and how that adds to overall developer productivity. If you are new to Zend Studio or a seasoned veteran you will find something of benefit from this presentation. Topics will include code development, file access, debugging and much more!   Presenter –  Mike Pavlak      Presentation slides

Zend Server for IBM i in Action This presentation explores the power of the latest release of Zend Solutions for IBM i. Starting with the community edition of Zend Server for IBM i then reviewing the features of the full product you will see a demonstration of many of the key features of this new solution for IBM i. Features to be discussed and demonstrated include code tracing, code acceleration, Job Queue and full page caching that is ideal for content management applications.   Presenter –  Mike Pavlak      Presentation slides

Introducing Zend Server for IBM i Whether you have been working with PHP since it has been offered on IBM i, or are just getting started this presentation will familiarize you with the biggest advancement to the Zend Stack for IBM i. Come learn about Zend Server for IBM i products, installation options and improvements that will increase end user and developer productivity for an even better PHP experience on IBM i. During this webinar you will learn how to deploy a complete PHP stack in minutes, pin-point, diagnose and resolve application problems quickly, and achieve significant performance gains for your PHP applications. Plus the new single Apache server and Fast CGI architecture introduce immediate performance benefits coupled with simpler administration.   Presenter – Mike Pavlak         Presentation slides

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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Many IBM i shops want to know where to start with PHP. It is a reasonable assumption that most RPG developers began their formative RPG development years cutting their teeth on green-bar reports. Report programs are a great place to start for several reasons including the fact that you can make a powerful impact with management and that reading report data tends to be a lot less dangerous than updating data files as a first step.

This presentation takes the RPG programmer through the steps necessary to move that RPG green-bar report to a webpage using PHP. Key features of this process will make liberal use of all the PHP tooling provided by Zend as well as a sample report and PHP script that you can download and install in your own environment. A sales history report from a fictitious company will illustrate key web development features like real time access to data, PHP toolkit examples for RPG program calls, HTML integration and some graphics to increase the visual impact of the data.

All sample code used in the demonstration will be available to the attendee after the presentation to download and run on their local IBM i and can be customized for individual use.

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This webinar will be a basic level discussion of how to easily enable legacy applications through web services. Learn how to create a PHP wrapper or simple SOAP example. You will be ready to start writing your own web services applications upon the conclusion of this webinar.

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This webinar will take some of most commonly asked questions and review solutions to boost your productivity. Learn about additional resources that will help bring more value to your PHP applications and i5.

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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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Are you using PHP for Web application projects on the IBM i?   Are compliance and best practices important to you?  Then come to a Webinar where Aldon and Zend team up to bring you the industry-preferred approach to developing, managing and tracking Web applications on the IBM i.

Whether you are an IBM i user or not, and PHP is on your development radar, you need to start thinking about process, automation and change management for your Web application projects. Tune in for a webcast where the folks from Aldon and Zend team up to bring you the latest in Application Lifecycle Management for Web Applications on the IBM i. 

Industry speakers Mike Pavlak and Modi Ronen will provide tips and tricks to help you address today’s challenges --from data tracking and compliance to team management.  During this web cast and demo you will get a first-hand look at how the latest features from Aldon and Zend Studio for Eclipse provide a complete solution for managing your PHP application code across the entire application life cycle.  So if you care about what is important to compliance auditors, or you just want to ensure you are ITIL compliant, register today and find out how to quickly close the compliance-gap through simple code management.

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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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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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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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