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December 2, 2016
Issue Highlights
December 2, 2016 | Volume 13 Issue 47
• LEAD ARTICLE: TechTip: PDO for PHP
• FEATURED ARTICLE: TechTip: The .NET Core Framework
• NEWS HIGHLIGHT: Maxava Expands Support for JD Edwards Customers
• BUYER'S GUIDE: TLAForms
• EVENT: 4 Ways to Merge IBM i Data with Microsoft Excel
Feature Article - TechTip
TechTip: PDO for PHP
Why do we use PHP with an HTML web page? Lots of reasons, but data access is one of the most important, and PHP Data Objects (PDO) is, for me, the best way to do that.
Written by David Shirey
There are lots of web languages out there, aren’t there? HTML5, JavaScript, PHP, CoyoTE. I actually don’t know if that last one exists, but given the number of special languages available for the web, I think I’ve got a 50-50 chance.
And increasingly, on the IBM i, we are being introduced to—and find reasons to use—more and more of these languages. Each has its own list of things that it does well and things that it doesn’t.
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Feature Article - TechTip
TechTip: The .NET Core Framework
Provide support for a variety of chip and OS targets.
Written by Joydip Kanjilal
Since the initial version of .NET Framework (the first beta version of .NET 1.0 was released in the fall of 2000), Microsoft has released many more upgrades over the years. With an intent to make the framework cross-platform, open source, and modular, the software giant has now come up with .NET Core Framework.
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