Application Development Update for IBM i › ... › ibm_i_application_development_zend.pdfZend PHP Enhancements - Summary Zend Server Community Edition for i – Preloaded with IBM

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Application Development Update for IBM i

Alison ButterillApplication Development Offering Manager, Power Systems Software

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Zend PHP Enhancements - Summary Zend Server Community Edition for i

– Preloaded with IBM i 7.1, 6.1, 5.4– Includes one year of Silver support from Zend – Provided for no additional charge– Also available for download from zend.com– Replaces Zend Core

Zend Server for i– Provides advanced functions– Available from IBM with advanced support offerings– Also available from zend.com – Replaces Zend Platform

Zend Studio for i– Eclispe-based development environment – Integrates with Rational Developer for Power– Available with one year of Silver support from

Zend for no additional charge– Advanced support offerings available

Simplified Set Up and Management– FastCGI support between ILE Apache and PHP– Eliminates 2nd copy of Apache and reverse proxy– Software fixes via PTFs

Significant Performance Enhancements

New and improved features

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What Is Zend Server?

Production quality PHP stack– PHP, ZF, DB connectivity, debugging

extension, and more Two Editions - Free “Community Edition” provided

by IBM & Full commercial edition – Both are production ready

Application monitoring and diagnostics (integrated with Zend Studio)

Multi-level performance enhancement capabilities Software updates and security hot fixes Easy and quick installation Zend Framework Integration

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Zend Server for IBM i Next generation of PHP stack for IBM i Best of both Zend Core and Zend Platform Single Licensed Program Installation

– Advanced features enables by license key Two products

– Zend Server for IBM i Community Edition

• Available at no charge per IBM partnership

– Zend Server for IBM i• Subscription available

from Zend• High value extra features• Higher Support SLAs

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Why a new generation?

Based on feedback of key areas for Improvement Improved basic PHP Performance

– 30% to 600% depending on the application New capabilities

– Code Tracing – Faster problem resolution– Job Queue – Performance and scalability– Page Caching – Performance and Scalability– Support for PHP 5.3

Easier installation, administration & maintenance

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Page Caching

Problem Playback

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Fast CGI

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Zend Server

HTTP:10088Server(FastCGI)

IBM i DB2 UDB

PHP CGI

PHP filePASE

*PGM

CMD

Fast CGI built by IBM requires PTF’s– Current group for 57nnDG1 – IBM HTTP Server for i5/OS– http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/sline003.nsf/GroupPTFs?OpenView&view=

GroupPTFs – V5R4

• PASE – SI36004• HTTP – SI36026

– i6.1• PASE – SI36005• HTTP – SI36027

Now the best way to connect PHP to HTTP

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Zend Delivers an Open Solution Stack for IBM i

Opens up a vast ecosystem of technologies

– Development tools– Application frameworks– Applications

Zend Framework enables simple, scalable, best-practice, application development

– 10M+ downloads– Built into Zend Server and

Studio

4+ million trained PHP developers

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Leveraging Application Portfolio: PHP and MySQL

Bulletin Board Content Management System

Wiki

Customer Relationship Management Help Desk

Portal

e-CommerceCourse Management System

Portal

Portal