This session will introduce you to PHP on iSeries. PHP has the enviable position of being the only open-source server-side scripting language that's both fun and easy to learn. Unlike CGI scripts, which require you to write code to output HTML, PHP lets you embed PHP code in regular HTML pages, and execute the embedded PHP code when the page is requested. Built-in database support means that you can begin creating data-driven applications immediately, XML support makes it suitable for the new generation of XML-enabled applications.
Discover a world of available download PHP applications to quickly get your iSeries hosting a wiki, blog, shopping cart, or message board. Extremely robust and scalable, PHP can be
used for the most demanding of applications, and delivers excellent performance even at high loads. Recent surveys show that more than 16,000,000 Web sites use PHP as a server side scripting language. To put together a cutting-edge Web site, chock full of all the latest bells and whistles, there's only one acronym you really need to know: PHP.