Date Posted: July 26, 2007
What is Web 2.0 Starter Toolkit for IBM DB2?
Users starting with PHP are faced with the task of downloading a Web server and PHP modules and finding a relational database. The next struggle is to get code enabled for mash-ups, Ajax applications, and Web feeds. Web 2.0 Starter Toolkit for IBM® DB2® is a conveniently packaged set of products and technologies. The kit enables the quick creation of DB2 Web services and feeds using PHP technology.
All items are in one convenient place; these include downloads for PHP extension, an optional PHP IDE (integrated development environment), sample code, flash demonstrations, and DB2 Express – C: a "free to build, deploy, distribute" data server. Also included are tutorials, examples, and other learning materials. This technology runs on Windows®.How does it work?
The Web 2.0 Starter Toolkit for IBM DB2 helps you pull together all the necessary downloads for a complete PHP stack. The toolkit then installs helpful demonstrations and sample code. You can also install the Starter Toolkit demonstrations on top of Zend Core for IBM, a production-ready PHP stack.
Please also see this related alphaWorks technology: Industry Formats and Services with pureXML.About the technology author(s)
Leon Katsnelson has worked for IBM for 21 years, the last 13 in DB2 development. He has held a variety of positions in testing and development, including managing development of the DB2 Connect product. Mr. Katsnelson was also responsible for product planning and product management of the DB2 data servers for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows. Currently, he manages a team responsible for technical marketing of the IBM data servers. Mr. Katsnelson initiated the Starter Toolkit for DB2 on Rails project and developed the installer.
Leons Petrazickis is a database technology advocate at IBM, where he prepares sample applications, demonstrations, and white papers. He has recently attended Information on Demand 2006, where he conducted and presented tutorials, and Web 2.0 Expo (where he did not). His recently used languages include PHP, Ruby on Rails, Javascript™, Java, SQL, and XQuery. Mr. Petrazickis is a contributor to the HTML5 standard. He is one of the minds behind planetDB2.com, and he blogs at http://lpetr.org/blog/.
Chris Gruber, who has more than 13 years of industry experience, is technical manager for developer initiatives and works with IBM Information Management on industry-leading Data Server products.
Rizwan Tejpar is an Industry Internship Program (IIP) student at IBM, where he develops sample applications for showcasing DB2 working with open-source technologies. He attended the ZendCon conference in 2006 and SDWest conference in 2007, where he demonstrated DB2 pureXML™ capabilities to developers on the trade show floor. Mr. Tejpar""s most recent contribution was the DB2 Health Monitor Sample Application for PHP, which put an SOA spin on database health monitoring. The application featured a custom-built Ajax widget toolkit. Some of his other programming language experience includes C++, C# .NET, SQL, XQuery, and JSP.
