Contact
Lynell ConstantineWisconsin Midrange Computer Professional Association
secretary@wmcpa.org
September 2019 Monthly Dinner Meeting
Erwin Earley from Rogue Wave is coming to us this month with two talks on PHP!
Session I - PHP7 - Benefits of Upgrading
While version 7 of PHP has been available since late 2015, many companies are just now looking at moving to the current release. This session will explore various features of version 7, as well as highlighting those features/functions from earlier versions of PHP that are deprecated in the latest version. Additionally, the session will take a look at migration strategies for moving from version 5 to version 7 of PHP and highlight how separate subsystems for version 7 and version 5 of the PHP engine on IBM i can be leveraged to perform a step-wise migration of your PHP application(s). We will also take a look at features of the upcoming 7.4 release of PHP.
Session II - Understanding and Managing the PHP environment on IBMi
While we all know that installing Zend Server on IBM i provides the PHP engine – you may not be familiar with how PHP runs on the platform and the tools that are provided for managing the environment. In this session, we will explore the structure of how the PHP engine runs on the i platform including a description of the subsystem employed and some basic troubleshooting. We will also take a look at the 5250-based management system (zsmenu) for managing the configuration files, jobs, and subsystem, as well as the Zend Server Web GUI for working with various features of the basic edition of Zend Server including server configuration management, monitoring, and root cause analysis. The session will also highlight features of Zend Server that can be leveraged to streamline the development process.