Celebrate 25 Years of PHP at IBM i Day at php[world]
Guest blogger Eli White encourages IBM i developers to attend php[world].
Hello “Open Your i” readers, my name is Eli White (@EliW), and Jesse asked me to step in and guest write an article for the blog today.
The reason? Because of something really cool that Jesse and I have been working on, a dedicated conference day for IBM i developers to learn more about the PHP programming language at the upcoming php[world] conference.
Let me take a step back to explain where this came from.
So first of all, if you aren’t familiar with the PHP programming language, it’s the most common language for creating web applications in the world. It currently powers 79% of all websites including being the language behind many of the biggest sites in the world such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Slack and MailChimp. It’s also the language that some of the most popular framework/CMS applications are written in: WordPress, Drupal and Magento.
As for me, I’ve been a PHP developer since 2000 when I found it and fell in love. Through the course of my career, I ended up working at Zend for a year, where I was able to connect to the amazing IBM i community. Then fast forward many years to now, and a culmination of multiple events led to this opportunity.
I’m currently focused on the education of PHP developers. Through a partnership with php[architect] magazine, I help produce conferences to inspire developers. Our annual fall conference php[world] in Washington, D.C. is one of those, and it happens to coincide this year with the 25th anniversary of PHP!
We’re making big plans for celebrating the 25th anniversary at the event with special keynotes and panels that include some of the biggest names in PHP’s history, as well as the current people driving PHP’s future. There will be some reminiscing of the last 25 years that many of us have experienced together, but more importantly, discussions about where PHP is going and what the next 25 years will look like.
While making plans for this event, my team and I wanted to include the IBM i community as well, as you’re not only a part of the past but a strong part of our future as well! After discussions with many great community members, such as Jesse, we decided that the best way to serve the IBM i community was not to sprinkle in just a few talks throughout the conference but to create a dedicated day of information, and so the IBM i Day was created as a post-con event. As a post-con event, you can still experience the full conference and then get the IBM i specific content that you want. Optionally, you can just purchase the IBM i Day experience if you don’t have interest (or time) to attend the full conference.
This year’s php[world] conference will be taking place on October 23-24 and therefore the [[ https://world.phparch.com/schedule/ibm-i IBM i Day ]] is on October 25. It’s a full day of information presented by Jesse Gorzinski from IBM, as well as Erwin Early and Clark Everetts from Zend by Perforce. Topics will include:
- An overview of the capabilities of PHP on IBM i
- Building web applications that use your IBM i data.
- Leveraging existing business logic from your ILE programs and artifacts.
- The three pillars of modernization: extending data consumption; augmenting existing applications with web interfaces, and enabling IBM i to host business-ready open-source solutions.
- What you need to know about IBM’s increasing use of open source with the IBM i platform
I do hope that you’ll choose to join us there, to learn more about PHP and helping us meet php[world]’s goal of bringing the entire PHP community together to celebrate the 25th anniversary. Whether you’re working on IBM i or Windows, and writing custom PHP code or deploying WordPress installations, you’re part of the greater PHP community and we’re waiting for you at php[world] with open arms.
Registration is now open now.