The IBM i Programmer's Guide to PHP

Product Description Look Inside the Book Author Bio Specifications "At long last, here is the perfect book to recommend to anyone who is considering adopting PHP for IBM i development."--Mike Pavlak, Solutions Consultant, Zend Technologies, Inc. This is the first book to comprehensively address the PHP programming language and how it can--and should--be deployed on IBM i. With this IBM i-specific point of view, the authors examine how to transfer skills from a green-screen environment to the Web, become intimately familiar with PHP's commonly used features, and help start down the road of highly interactive Web-based application development. For decades, the green screen has been the ubiquitous interface into an organization's data. But with the advent of HTML, the Internet, and the browser, combined with end users' existing familiarity with the Web, green-screen developers are seeing much of the demand for their skills diminish in favor of more Web-enabled technologies. One of t