Re: PHP -- WEB400

Larry,
Joel's answers are correct.

You will also find examples of calling DB2/400 either via Zend's
documentation or in the following article:
http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc?1@@.6b50a08e. Calling RPG examples from
PHP in the follow-on article:
http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc?50@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@.6b50a180 .

For those of you that don't want to hard code PHP --> you will hear
about a product from Zend before this month is over.

Thank you.

Regards,
Jim Dillard

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Jim Dillard
IBM Alliance Manager
Direct: 408-342-8886
Email: JDillard@xxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Joel Cochran
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 8:33 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] PHP

Hi Larry:

The example you sent uses echo to output everything. Check out these
options instead:

1) Drop in and out of PHP as required:

<html>
<head><title>My Web Page</title></head>
<body>
<p>The Year is:

<?php
echo Date('Y');
?>

</p>
</body>

This will actually dump the return value of the call to the Date()
function inline into your HTML. In this example, it is a bit of
overkill, but for more complex operations such as database access, file
includes, or calculations this makes sense. You still use echo when you
want to output from within PHP code (and of course white space is
ignored), but as you'll see in the next option even that is routinely
unnecessary.

2) Use PHP Expressions to embed data:
<html>
<head><title>My Web Page</title></head>
<body>
<?php
$date = Date('Y');
?>
<p>The Year is: <%= $date %></p>
</body>

This is from memory, and I haven't coded PHP from scratch in a while,
but I think it is correct. Basically, you can embed data fields or even
function calls directly inline.

Both of these approaches make your PHP code a lot more palatable.

HTH,

--
Joel Cochran
http://www.developingfor.net

On 10/2/07, Larry Kleinman <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi - I'm making the switch from Net.Data to PHP and have some really

basic

questions. Most important, at least right now:

Net.Data allows ordinary HTML inside of a Net.Data function. For

example

%HTML (S1) {
<html>
<head>
</head>

<body>
Some text here
@S1 ( )
Some more text here
</body>
%}

will display "Some text here" then call the function name S1, then

display

"Some more text here"

In PHP, it looks like i have to use the Echo funciton whenever I want

do
straight HTML

<?php
Function input ( ) {
echo "
some text here
";

S1 ( )
echo "
some text here
";

}
?>

Is this correct?

Larry Kleinman
Kleinman Associates, Inc.
212-949-6469
203-255-4100
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