What's new with Zend server
- 1. PHP on IBM i: What’s New with Zend Server 5 for IBM i Function Junction Mike Pavlak Solutions Consultant mike.p@zend.com mike p@zend com © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 2. PHP Sessions Sun 11:30 AM • What’s New with Zend Server Sun 1:30 PM • Business Value of PHP Sun 4:00 PM • Practical PHP by Example (Leth-Kjaer) Mon 10:00 AM • PHP on IBM i: Getting Started Mon 10:00 AM • DB Standards in Zend PHP usage (Sielhorst) Tue 10:00 AM • MySQL on IBM i, Open Source & DB2 Store Tue 11 30 A 11:30 AM • PHP Arrays for the RPG Programmer | 2 Copyright © 2009 Zend Technologies, Inc, All rights reserved © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc. 02/03 /10
- 3. Audience • Used PHP somewhere else • New to Zend PHP • Looking to understand the strategic direction g g • Anyone who does not believe third party vendors ARE investing in this space… 3 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 4. Agenda • Review the IBM relationship • Technical Overview • Product Installation • Community Edition Features Toolkit, optimizer, java bridge, debug •F t Features of commercial edition f i l diti Monitoring, Code Tracing, Job Queue 4 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 5. What’s New with Zend Server www.zend.com IBM Relationship © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 6. IBM Relationship History • Zend is an IBM strategic business partner • IBM selected Zend to bring PHP to IBM i in 2005 • Beta, then Core, then Platform now Server • Tens of thousands of downloads from Zend • Zend Server part of IBM i6.1 & i7.1 • Products are always available at Zend.com 6 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 7. IBM Relationship FAQ’s FAQ s • What do we get? Zend Server CE Zend Studio 1 year Sil Silver L Level S l Support ( t (email/web 72 h il/ b hour response) ) Since Feb 1, 2009 • What happens after 1 year? Product will still run No updates to product or PHP* Forum support only pp y 7 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 8. Zend Support Options • Silver for the first year from your first download Web ticket/email support 72 hour response window • G ld - B i Gold Business h hour support t 6 hour response on P1 (site down) • Pl ti Platinum – 24/7 2 hour response on P1 (site down) Customer requested PHP Bug Hot Fixes • SLA detailed on Zend Website http://www zend com/en/services/support/production-sla http://www.zend.com/en/services/support/production-sla 9 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 9. Zend Server 5 for IBM i www.zend.com Technical overview © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 10. What Is Zend Server? • Production quality PHP stack PHP ZF DB connectivity debugging extension PHP, ZF, connectivity, extension, and more • Two Editions - Free “Community Edition” provided by IBM & Full commercial edition Both are production ready • Application monitoring and diagnostics (integrated with Zend Studio) • Multi-level performance enhancement capabilities • S ft Software updates and security h t fi d t d it hot fixes • Easy and quick installation • Zend Framework Integration g 12 What is Zend Server © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 11. Why a new generation? • Based on feedback of key areas for Improvement y p • Improved basic PHP Performance 30% to 600% depending on the application p g pp • New capabilities Code Tracing – Faster problem resolution Job Queue – Asynchronous PHP script processing (in batch!) Page Caching – Performance and scalability Support for PHP 5.3 • Easier installation, administration & maintenance 14 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 12. Zend Server Under the Covers IBM i ILE Apache:10088 i/OS • Default PHP file configuration PASE FastCGI HTTP:10088 URL Request PHP CGI *PGM Server (FastCGI) CMD HTML Zend Server DB2 UDB © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc. 15
- 13. Zend Server for IBM i www.zend.com Installation © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 14. Zend Server Installation • Can install PHP 5.2 or 5.3 (Select PHP 5.3, see www.php.net ) • Save File or Windows installer available at Zend.com • Updated Fast CGI built by IBM requires PTFs Current group for 57nnDG1 – IBM HTTP Server for i5/OS http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/sline003.nsf/GroupPTFs?OpenView&view=GroupPTFs V5R4 – Updated! • PASE – SI36004 – Updated! • HTTP – SI36026 i6.1 – Updated! • PASE – SI36005 • HTTP – SI36027 17 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 15. Zend Core Users • Can install Zend Server side by side • Uses new directories • Uses different port 10088 • Consider running one side at a time Potential conflict with user based applications. Other applications • Once successfully on Zend Server, remove Core DLTLICPGM 18 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 16. File locations • Document Root /www/zendsvr/htdocs • Zend Installation Directories /usr/local/zendsvr • Zend Framework /usr/local/zendsvr/share/ZendFramework • PHP binaries (CLI and more) /usr/local/zendsvr/bin 21 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 17. Other new defaults • Web User QTMHHTTP • Initial port 10088 • Admin Interface http://yourIBMiNameHere:10088/ZendServer • Nice comparison table of Core vs. Server (Alan Seiden) http://www.alanseiden.com/2010/04/21/differences-between- zend-core-and-zend-server-on-ibm-i/ 22 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 18. Update process • User controlled PTF • PTF available f il bl from Z d Zend • Check for updates in Administration panel 23 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 19. Sample scripts • Free for the install http://yourIBMiName:10088/Samples/ • B i concepts, if you want an application consider O Basic t t li ti id Open Source community • Scripts examples: HelloWorld SQL Data Access to DB2 Q SQL Data Access using ZF SQL Access to MySQL Program call LDAP 24 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 20. Zend Server for IBM i www.zend.com Community Edition Features © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 21. Zend Server CE vs Commercial vs. Feature CE Commercial Certified PHP ● ● Zend Framework ● ● Apache integration ● ● MySQL ● ● Built-in database connectivity ● ● Java connector ● ● Web-based admin ● ● Debugger ● ● Bytecode acceleration ● ● Caching API ● ● PHP 5.3 ● ● PHP IBM i toolkit ● ● Page Cache ● Application Monitoring ● Code tracing ● Job queue ● Software updates and hot fixes ● Technical support ● 26 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 22. Database resources supported • DB2 db2_connect • MySQL mysql_connect • Microsoft SQL Server mssql_connect • Oracle oci oci_ 27 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 23. Leverage investments in existing technology • Call High level language programs g g g p g RPG COBOL CL programs via toolkit C based API’s • Call Java Program via Java Connector Now part of the both Zend Server and Zend Server Community Edition 28 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 24. Optimizer+ Eliminates what’s not needed Opcode cache • Caches the PHP bytecode in RAM • Significantly reduces disk access Opcode optimizer • O ti i Optimizes certain code f t i d fragments t i t to improve execution speed ti d Now part of the free Community Edition package 29 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 25. Data Caching Provides a set of API functions for caching data items g DB query results, web service calls, complex or hard-to-get data Output elements Allows skipping slow PHP code chunks Shared memory and Disk storage backends Data can be grouped using namespaces APC user cache compatibility layer Zend Framework Zend_Cache_Backend adapters 30 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 26. Zend Server Update www.zend.com Open Source Toolkit © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 27. Toolkit Plumbing from 10 000 feet 10,000 DB2 DB2 Extension Functions or ODBC DRDA DB2 XML Stored PHP Procedures OO & Classes Program g Data Toolkit T lkit Calls API XML HLL’s OO R Request RPG, COBOL i5 RPG Compatibility XMLSERVICE functions Wrapper System Parm Data Artifacts 32 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 28. XML Service • IBM has open sourced XMLService. p • First Open Source project on IBM i. (that I know of…) • Made up of RPG, CL and DB2 stored procedures (SQL) p , p ( Q ) • Tony Cairns, IBM Rochester 33 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 29. XML Service • Cross platform p • Language agnostic • Basic plumbing for all open source languages p g p g g 34 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 30. Compatibility Wrapper • Intercepts existing i5 function requests p g q • Written in pure PHP • Passes them on to OO PHP which then… • Passes on to XML Service • Alan Seiden, SBS & alanseiden.com Seiden 35 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 31. Source Code on YiPs for now YiPs…for now… • http://youngiprofessionals.com/ 36 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 32. Now the program call • Set parameters based on function p Call program V I C a L n I o Output results e r i m n t / g m n e O t h n a v a t m l e 37 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 33. Zend Server for IBM i www.zend.com Commercial Edition Features © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 34. Application Monitoring Zend Server Monitor will watch your application for: y pp PHP Errors (including warnings, notices, uncaught exceptions...) Failing functions (user-defined or internal) Failing DB queries Slow functions (user-defined or internal) or DB queries Slow request executions High memory consumption Errors reported by Zend Server components When an issue is detected, Zend Server reports an event and detected takes the “Dump” every time! 39 Code Tracing © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 35. Page Caching Don't execute a single line of PHP if you don't have to g y Caches entire HTTP response Configured from UI, no code changes required Live / cached decision is based on request or session parameters Variants can be created based on request or session parameters 40 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 36. Page Caching 41 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 37. Zend Server 5 for IBM i www.zend.com Code Tracing d © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 38. Code Tracing Supported Workflows • Monitoring workflow: g When a monitoring event is created, the associated trace data of the specific request is captured Trace data is attached and associated to the monitoring event • Manual tests/functional workflow: Manually through the GUI or from a browser by adding a parameter to the request • Production workflow Can be activated automatically in case of a Zend Monitoring event, for example a PHP error, a slow execution or high memory usage © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 39. Code Tracing Enhancements since last demo • We are working this stuff pretty hard g p y • Toggle Critical path display • Toggle Memory display gg y p y • Arguments display © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 40. Zend Server 5: Technical Overview www.zend.com Job Queue b © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 41. Job Queue allows you to to... • Put certain tasks into a separate execution queue p q Off-load to new process (or defer to a later time) Off-load to a different server • Execute certain tasks at a specified time Distribute processing load to off-hours • Execute certain tasks periodically • While.. Maximizing reuse of existing infrastructure & code Making sure nothing falls between the cracks Doing it all from a PHP API 46 © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 42. Creating Jobs • Jobs are created using the createHttpJob() method g p () $queue = new ZendJobQueue(); $queue->createHttpJob( 'http://backend.local/jobs/somejob.php'); • Pass parameters Simple ones, via query string $_GET C Complex ones, as an associative array of k => value pairs l i ti f key l i • Set job options N Name, priority, schedule, etc. i it h d l t Create deferred or recurring jobs • Or… create from the UI 47 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 43. Resources • Recorded Webinars http://www.zend.com/en/resources/webinars/i5-os •Z d S Zend Server f IBM i main page, li k t d for i link to downloads l d http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/zend-server-ibm-i • Zend Server manual: PDF: htt // http://www.zend.com/topics/Zend-Server-5-for-IBMi-Reference-Manual.pdf d /t i /Z d S 5 f IBMi R f M l df Online: http://files.zend.com/help/Zend-Server-5/zend- server.htm#installation_guide.htm 48 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 44. Thank you & Q&A • If you have a question you can Type in the Q&A panel Tweet #zendwebinar • Follow us! http://bit ly/cjueZg (Zend Technologies or search for Zend) http://bit.ly/cjueZg http://twitter com/zend http://twitter.com/zend © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
- 45. Q&A www.zend.com mike.p@zend.com p Please fill out your Session Evaluation! 50 Insert->Header & Footer © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.