The IBM i Programmer’s Guide to PHP… second edition?

Yep!  PHP is still making strides on the IBM i and people are loving it.  But with the world’s premier book for PHP on the i Series developer now several years old it is time to update it.  So Jeff Olen and I have decided to start work on a second edition.  We will be making some changes but we will mostly be adding new content.  Lots of new content.  Here is a list of things that we’ve come up with.

• Web services/Mobile
  • JSON
  • REST
  • Mobile interfaces and considerations
• Language features in PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 (It will probably be a while before 5.5 is available on the i but we still want to cover it, giving you even MORE value for your money)
• SOLID principles
• Expand OO
  • Basics
  • Advanced
• Standards
  • PSR*
  • Autoloading
• Beginning Test Driven Development
• New Toolkit
• Security

I’ve actually started writing one of the chapters this morning, BUT!  If you are an IBM i developer and there are topics that you would like to have covered we would love to hear from you.  You can either comment below or email me at [email protected] (Yes, I’ll share anything with Jeff 🙂 ).