ZendStudio i5 on Linux access DB2 on iSeries

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Heyo,

I am racking my brains this morning.  I am developing a simple PHP script
that displays the results of a SQL SELECT statement back to the browser.  I
should note that developing this script, and configuring an ODBC connection
to DB2/400, on Windows is working just fine.  But I am now trying to get
ZendStudio/PHP on my Ubuntu Linux desktop to communicate with DB2 on the
iSeries.  I was heading down the unixodbc.org path until I remembered there
was the i5 PHP toolkit.  I have since been trying to make the following
simple script run successfully:

<?php

include_once('Toolkit_classes.php');

i5_connect ( '999.999.999.999', 'USER', 'PASSWORD' );

if (! $conn)
    die ( "Connection error is :" . i5_errormsg () );
else
    echo "Connection OK! " . $conn . "<br>\n";

?>

I thought I heard mention that the toolkit came with the i5 version of
ZendStudio but now I am wondering if it is instead a component of ZendCore.
The issue with the above is it can't resolve the i5_* PHP API's and I can't
seem to find them anywhere on my system either.

Anybody else running their PHP on Linux and communicating with DB2 on the
iSeries?  I am open to pretty much any options at this point.  No, it isn't
an option to run the PHP on the iSeries - client requirement.

Thanks,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com