Re: Getting frustrated with Zend

[Larry Kleinman <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Getting the prerequisites loaded was a pain, but the install did not go 
terribly.  It was more an issue of the manual saying that such and such 
should happen, and did not say what to do if it did not happen.   More 
important, it was not at all clear how to actually start using it once it 
was loaded.  The posting that Kelly did was enormously helpful.

You're right, Net.Data seems to be a lot more straight forward.  Although 
it might have something to do with the fact that I've been coding in it 
for about five years, and have done a grand total of one PHP project 
(which was not hosted on our trusty used-to-be 400)

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



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Larry,

I suspect that Mike Pavlak may jump on this.  We had him tied up in a 
WebEx presentation to our user's group in Utah today, where he walked 
through getting a "Hello World" script to run.

He stressed the importance of being up on PTF's, prerequisites, and 
following the documented installation process - which is where most 
problems occur.

It sounds like the install didn't go well, for you.

Net.Data has fewer prerequisites, and steps.

-Nathan.




----- Original Message ----
From: Larry Kleinman <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 10:18:19 AM
Subject: [WEB400] Getting frustrated with Zend

Jim - I don't mean to sound like a complainer, but I am having the same 
sort of frustration that I had when I looked at this product a year ago. 
Although there is no shortage of online documentation, I can't seem to 
find something that walks me through setting up the servers, putting pages 

out there, and actually creating a small site.  I have spent over 10 hours 

going in circles, and still can't even determine whether I have installed 
the product properly.  Also, when I click on the link to open a ticket, I 
get a drop down list of products that doesn't even include Zend Core.  It 
also says that my support type is "Zend Evaluation."  Aren't I supposed to 

have something called Silver support?

I am really trying to move from net.data, but this - at least so far - has 

been nightmare.


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