RE: Looking for various PHP options running on i

Typically it goes like this. New app request comes in. The IBMi team can deliver it in a day. The other guys will take weeks or months (if ever). This is for the same request. Like I said, YMMV.

This topic is supposed to be about PHP support options, so I'll stop talking now.

:)



-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Woehr [mailto:jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 8:29 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Looking for various PHP options running on i

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 7:07 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Rapid dev" and "off IBMi" are mutually exclusive in my experience,
but YMMV.

Oh, man, what you can do on the web server in one day on a Linux box. You need some Linux weenies in your shop.

Ref PHP, do you use Windows, .NET, Java, SQL Server, HTML, CSS,
Javascript?

PHP/HTML/CSS/Javascript. Some mySQL. Windows is to me a legacy system, a highly non-productive and executionally inefficient legacy system. Nice scroll bars, though :)

PHP is lovely, and will remain lovely and only improve on the IBM i in the coming year.

I'm sold on the Node.js approach personally, but 2-tier PHP is a fine option I and my clients are dealing with.

Do you have support contracts for those? Just food for thought.

PHP/HTML/CSS/Javascript on Linux with various connection strategies to IBM i works.

The bugs are listed, and you keep up with them on the mailing lists.

There's probably more PHP out there written in the past 10 years than all the RPG in IBM history.

There are probably more PHP/HTML/CSS/Javascript geeks out there under 40 than there are IBM i and IBM z programmers all together.

If you use open source, web searching is your support contract and the Internet is your help desk. With more immediate and relevant answers than commercial support.

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