Re: native PHP in V5R4???

["Eric Kempter" <EKempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can run RPG CGI and PHP under the same apache instance / configuration.  

We tried installing PHP some time ago but were not successful until i5php.net 
came out with the PHP binaries.  We didn't have the in-house expertise to do 
accomplish a successful compile.  As far as porting PHP to the i5, I wonder how 
difficult it would be to do this given the vast numbers of includes that are 
available for php.  One i5php.net binary includes these program:

gcc-4.0.1 for OS/400 
texinfo-4.8 
m4-1.4.3 
autoconf-2.59 
automake-1.9.6 
zlib-1.2.3 
patch-2.5.4 
gzip-1.2.4 
bzip2-1.0.3 
bison-2.0 
gettext-0.13 
ncurses-5.4 
curl-7.14.0 
mysql-4.1.14 
unzip-5.52 
zip-2.31 
php-4.4.0 
libxml2-2.6.20 
php-5.0.4 

Even with these program, there are other includes that I would like to see 
included (like the LDAP extension) - is that be possible or practicle?  Are we 
in effect asking for a native version of UNIX rather than just PHP?  I look 
forward to reading everyone's opinion.

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Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 7:36 AM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WEB400] native PHP in V5R4???


 >Poor job IBM - If you can produce a native version of Apache - how hard
was it to do the same for PHP?

This one made me think. . . Would they have to create a custom "IBM PHP"
runtime similar to what they did with Tomcat? If so that would truly be a
bummer because that would mean the future versions of PHP would have to go
through the hands of IBM before it made its way to us.

I am not real familiar with the PASE environment, but what makes it require
two versions of Apache to be running? Is PASE almost like a different LPAR
and acts as it's own OS?  Is it more that putting RPG CGI and PHP in the
same Apache config would create a mess or is it not possible to have them
both in the same config because they can't both see the same config?

Aaron Bartell