Php

A programming language

Installation and Usage

Use the zopen package manager (QuickStart Guide) to install:

zopen install php

This installs the published SDK-free release, not the native Db2 candidate on this branch. See the candidate status and acceptance handoff below.

Building from Source

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/zopencommunity/phpport.git
cd phpport

2. Build using zopen:

zopen build -vv

See the zopen porting guide for more details.

Documentation

• Native Db2 PDO_ODBC build, runtime setup and acceptance
• Candidate validation evidence and customer handoff

Runtime and CI status

PHP 8.2.34 includes native aligned Zend chunks and LE-compatible fiber stacks instead of the unsafe anonymous-mmap shim. A foreground build/install on the CI host exited 0 without the reported PCRE cleanup S0C4: 11,469 passes, 7,059 skips and 96 failures, within the unchanged allowance of 112. Remaining failures are not all declared harmless.

Interrupted/crashed test runners now retain partial results and fail explicitly, including crashes after a printed summary; they cannot report misleading zero totals or hide under the ordinary failure allowance.

Native Db2 delivery candidate - issue #39

This branch defaults to building PDO_ODBC into CLI, CGI/FastCGI and phpdbg. No extension setting or CLI-specific module is required. CI discovers its private SDK through ${ZOPEN_ROOTFS}/etc/php-db2-sdk; SDK-free source builds must explicitly set ZOPEN_PDO_ODBC=no. IBM headers, the import side deck, credentials and site configuration are never distributed.

Candidate, not a Db2-validated release: the published STABLE_phpport_462 package still has only the SQLite PDO driver. A fresh Git CI-host native build/install/package exited 0: 11,482 passes, 7,136 skips, 93 failures within the unchanged allowance of 112, without S0C4. Connections, Unicode, prepared LOBs and transactions still require the approved live tests described in the acceptance guide.

The candidate hardens native BLOB handling, streamed parameters, buffer/length bounds and credential completion. Persistent connections and the Windows-only ODBC_ATTR_ASSUME_UTF8 conversion flag fail explicitly rather than pretending to support unsafe behavior. Registration and skipped database tests do not establish customer acceptance; issue #39 remains open.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please follow the zopen contribution guidelines.