Get Your PHP on IBM i, Hold the Zend

December 11, 2019 Alex Woodie

PHP was one of the first open source technologies to make an impact on the IBM i server. But due to the arrangement that IBM made with Zend, the PHP technology has been tied to a specific software distribution controlled by Zend. But now, IBM i shops that want to use PHP but don’t want to pay for the Zend Server distribution after the first free year of support is up now have a free option available – and it’s from the Zend folks themselves, no less.

On December 2, the folks at Zend posted a repository for Community PHP …