| Date: | Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 |
| Time: | 5:30 (Deli snack) - 6:00 (Meeting) |
| Location: | IBM-Southfield 18000 West Nine Mile Road Southfield, MI 48075 (map) |
| Speaker: | Erwin Earley |
PHP, the most popular scripting language on the web, has come to IBM i. Millions of web programmers use PHP to easily create interactive, dynamic web applications--and now, so can you! This session provides an introduction to programming with the PHP language and how to use it to web-enable IBM i resources. Plenty of code examples and references for further study are included. No previous web programming experience necessary. Some knowledge of HTML is helpful.
Erwin Earley is a managing consultant at IBM who has worked with the Rochester, Minnesota, development lab since 1996. Erwin currently heads up the Open Community Center of Competency in the IBM i Technology Center. He has worked in the IT industry since 1980 and has experience with several Unix variants as well as Linux and IBM i.