Workshop for PHP on IBM i
Part 1
Mike Pavlak
Solutions Consultant
[email protected]
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Workshop Agenda
Time Topic Details
45 Presentation 1 Fundamentals of PHP & HTML
30 Lab 1 Lab Begins
15 Break
45 Presentation 2 Functions and Arrays
30 Lab 2
60 Lunch
60 Presentation 3 DB2 Data Access
30 Lab 3
15 Break
60 Presentation 4 OOP & Program call & Mobile
30 Lab 4
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PHP Virtual Lab Part 1
45-60 minutes of presentation
Covering...
• PHP Basics
• HTML Tag Language
• HTML Forms
• PHP Iterative structures
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What is PHP?
PHP Hypertext Pre-Processor
Developed initially by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994
Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski in 1997
Thousands of contributors worldwide
7 million+ developers
244+ million web sites! (Netcraft 2013)
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Top 10 Internet Sites by WW traffic
1. Google.com 6. Wikipedia.com
2. Facebook.com 7. qq.com
3. Youtube.com 8. Linked In
4. Yahoo.com 9. Taobao.com
5. Baidu.com 10. Twitter.com 7 more
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PHP is a Scripting Language
Not compiled, interpreted
Easy way to get database info to Web
Short learning curve as OO is optional
Forgiving and intuitive code structure
Similar in nature to Net.Data, not as verbose
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Who uses PHP?
• Yahoo, GE, Fiat, Mazda, Disney
• On i, Harris Data, United Rentals, Starbucks, Prada
• Kids coming out of school (low $)
• Open source developers – 10,000+ projects
• Community - strong in knowledge and support
• 7 million+ developers
• IBM
CMS
• Many, many more!
• PHP is to Java what RPG is to COBOL!
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Zend Server Under the Covers
IBM i
ILE Apache:10080 i/OS
• Default PHP file
configuration PASE
FastCGI
HTTP:10080
URL Request *PGM
Server PHP CGI
(FastCGI)
CMD
HTML
Zend Server
DB2 UDB
MySQL
MSSQL Server
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Oracle
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How PHP works
• PHP Runs on the server
• The primary goal of PHP is to generate something to the
browser it can digest!
HTML, JavaScript, Flax, XML, Flex, Etc.
• HTML is the primary language of the web so let’s look at
that for a bit...
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Fundamentals of HTML (Quick review)
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HTML
• The default presentation language of the web!
Easy to learn
Think about when you learned interactive IBM i programming
• You learned DDS, right…so you can learn HTML too!
Tag oriented: <b>bolded text</b>
Many tags make up the language
Nested orientation
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HTML 4 – Structure of an HTML Document
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>An HTML Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello world! </p>
</body>
</html>
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HTML
• Popular HTML tags
• <table></table> Table definition (looks like a subfile)
• <head></head> Page header
• <title></title> Page Title, usually appears in tab…
• <p></p> Paragraph
• <br /> Carriage return/line break
• Hyperlink via Anchor tag:
<a href=“myPHPscript.php”>Text that will link</a>
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HTML Example
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What does that look like?
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Fundamentals of PHP
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PHP and your two new best friends
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PHP Script Structure
• PHP script structure
<?php will start a script
Optionally ?> terminates block or script
Semicolon terminates simple code segment
May embed multiple block of PHP code in single script
May have multiple PHP lines per line in code file
<html><head><title>This is my script</title></head><body>
<?php
<html><head><title>This is my script</title></head><body>
echo ‘Hello World’;
<?php echo ‘Hello World’; ?>
?>
</body></hmtl>
</body></hmtl>
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Variables
<?php
• Rules
$field1 = 5;
Case senstive $field2 = 10.6;
$field3 = $field1 + $field2;
Begin with $ $field1 = “Hello World”;
• $thisIsMyVariable
?>
• $_AnotherVariable
• $ this is not a variable
Implicit casting
Can be re-typed (Dynamically Typed Language)
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Variables and their types
• Scalar
Integer
• -2,147,483,648 thru 2,147,483,647
• Supports decimal, octal and hex representation
Floating-Point
• 1.7E-308 thru 1.7E+308
• 15 digits of decimal precision
Strings
• Big. Really big. Too big to discuss!
Boolean
• False is 0, 0.0, false keyword, empty string, object w/no values, null. All
others are true
• Four complex types: Object, array, null and resource
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Variables…(cont.)
• Scope
Global – Available everywhere but inside function (sort of)
Local – Available only in a function, destroyed at end
Static – Available only in a function, but remains
• Arrays (three types)
Enumerated
Associative
Multi-dimensional
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Arrays: Value assignment
• Enumerated
$Animals[0] = ‘Dog’
$Animals[1] = ‘Cat’
$Animals[2] = ‘Hamster’
• Associative
$Barnyard[‘Cow’] = ‘Calf’
$Barnyard[‘Chicken’] = ‘Chick’
$Barnyard[‘Horse’] = ‘Foal’
• Multi-dimensional
$farm[0] = $Animals
$farm[1] = $Barnyard
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Strings
• Most of PHP is character strings
• Single quotes
Variables not expanded
Heavy use of concatenation operator “.”
$string1 = ‘This is the value of variable x: ’ . $x
• Double quotes
Variables interpolation
$string2 = “This is the value of variable x: $x”
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Operators
• Most common operators apply (+,-,*,/,etc.)
• Concatenation
$greeting =‘My name is ’
DEFINE (TEACHER, ‘Mike Pavlak’) //Note uppercase…
$salute = $greeting . TEACHER (My name is Mike Pavlak)
• Increment / decrement
$a++, ++$a ($a = $a + 1)
$a--, --$a ($a = $a – 1)
• Logical operators
&& and
|| or
! not
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Comments
• A brief comment about comments
• // (C++ style)
indicates single line comment
May use at end of line of live code
Easily comments a line of code
• /* … */ (C Style)
Looks like CL? Pretty close
Comment block,
Can span multiple lines
• Shell style #
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The dreaded equal sign
• = Single equal sign is assignment
$X=3
$Y=$X
Now $Y = 3
• == Double equal sign is for conditions
If ($x==$y) { do something} else {do something else}
If you see single equal in condition, assignment will occur
• === Triple equal sign is exact equal conditions
$X= 3 (Integer) $Y=3.0 (Float)
If ($x==$y) will resolve to true
If ($x===$y) will resolve to false
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Flow control
• If
Condition
• Else
Condition
if ($x == 5) {
One line, no parenthesis…
$x++;
$y++;
if ($x == 5)
}
$x++;
else {
else
$x--;
$x--;
$y--;
}
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Flow control (cont…)
• While (condition) {
Do something
• }
• Break and continue
While ($x < $y) {
$x++;
if ($x==5) break;
echo $x;
}
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Flow control (cont…)
• Foreach
Iterate over elements in an array
$array1[0]=‘ham’;
$array1[1]=‘salami’;
$array1[2]=‘bologna’;
foreach ($array1 as $index=>$value) {
echo ‘Element ‘ . $index . ‘ is ‘ . $value.’<br />’;
}
Element 0 is ham
Element 1 is salami
Element 2 is bologna
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Workshop Agenda
Time Topic Details
45 Presentation 1 Fundamentals of PHP & HTML
30 Lab 1 Lab Begins
15 Break
45 Presentation 2 Functions and Arrays
30 Lab 2
60 Lunch
60 Presentation 3 DB2 Data Access
30 Lab 3
15 Break
60 Presentation 4 OOP & Program call & Mobile
30 Lab 4
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