Thread: Trying to set up i5 with Framework

Hi Chris,

Can you post your configuration files? It will help us determine what is wrong with the setup.

SpotSec

I am going to rebuild the HTTP server first as I have noticed a couple of strange problems. Once I have cleared these up I will post the configs

Thanks

These are what works but I think I can cut out some of the config. I am having problems with zendcore and server status which I have logged with support.

everything looks in working order here, but I actually was talking about posting your sections where your have set include paths, controller configs, etc..

What I have done before is setting/determining a global base directory and dynamically setting include paths

I have the following set up for the directories

Directory ->Application
contains folders config, controllers,views,models
Directory ->htdocs
contains folders images, scripts, styles
Directory ->library
contains folder Zend (this is the Framework)
Directory tmp
Contains folders cache, sessions, view_compiles

The server is set to serve pages from htdocs. I did not want to have the Application in the htdocs directory so this seemed like a reasonable structure?

I have the UserController.php in the Application/controllers directory and here is a piece of code where I am having to define the whole path to the view

Code:

function registerAction()
	{
		$view = new Zend_View();
		$view->setScriptPath('/www/shieldcrm/application/views');
		echo $view->render('register.php');
	}

This is the same for all of the script paths I have to set. In a tutorial I am reviewing the path is set simply as 'controllers' or 'views' so I can only assume that somewhere there is a basedir value I can set which would state that all requests for these files use the base plus the next level?

Chris...

I have set up the php.ini to see the /www/shieldcrm/application in searches. This allows me to include files in the config simply by using config/DB_config.php etc... However I still have to set the scriptpaths etc to the full path ie /www/shieldcrm/application/controllers etc...

How can I set the scriptpaths to be linked to a partial url?

Chris...

We too are contemplating using Zend Framework on an i5 to access a DB2 database on the i5.

Is this what you are trying to do, and have you had any luck doing it?

My consultant is perplexed because Framework apparently uses "PDO_ODBC" to connect to databases, and according to the IBM RedBook, "PHP: Zend for i5/OS" "PDO_ODBC" is not currently supported with DB2 for i5/OS.

Have you found any workarounds for this?

Thanks, Dave

Originally Posted by chris_hird

I have set up the php.ini to see the /www/shieldcrm/application in searches. This allows me to include files in the config simply by using config/DB_config.php etc... However I still have to set the scriptpaths etc to the full path ie /www/shieldcrm/application/controllers etc...

How can I set the scriptpaths to be linked to a partial url?

Chris...

Actually now Zend_View will automatically render views from the views folder in a setup described here: Ben Ramsey » Blog Archive » Zend Framework View Notes

As for setScriptPath(), a relative path I think would start from your controllers directory (so '../views'). You can use get_include_path() as a lazy way for the path of the views or do something similar to this:

[php]
$appDir = Zend_Registry::getInstance()->get('applicationDirectory');
$this->setScriptPath($appDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $request->getModuleName() . '/Views');
[/php]

I was wondering if you guys know of any work arounds for connecting to the i5/AS400 using PDO_IBM, PDO_ODBC or db2, without purchasing db2 connect. I want to use zend's adapters, but it appears i need a license for that. ODBC Data Source Administrator shows that i have iSeries Access ODBC driver, so i think i might try to use that, but not sure how to tell PDO_ODBC to use that driver.

The client machine is running

Windows XP 64 bit
XAMPP 1.7.0 - so i can run PHP files locally
Zend Framework 1.7.6 - Zend DB classes

More Info on my problem: Why can't DB2 access be simple? - Zend Core for IBM - PHP support & tips - Zend.com

Thanks for any help