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SAP PHP Development Questions

Former Member — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:12:44 GMT

Hello all,

I'm interested in venturing into PHP development for SAP. I have some experience on PHP development and at the moment I'm in a SAP NW Portal Consultant. Some questions:

1) Is there a way for me to personally create my own development environment to learn this? Is there a SAP Mini-Server 6.40? From what I've read, you can install this on a desktop PC (at least the 6.20)

2) Is there a way to properly simulate a SAP-PHP development environment? Say I want to integrate with ECC HR or Finance?

Thank you all.

Regards,

Jan

Re: SAP PHP Development Questions

gregorw — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:54:47 GMT

Hello Jan,

1) Check out https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/nw-downloads for the available ABAP Trial Versions.

2) [Run XAMPP on Windows with sapnwrfc for PHP |https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/x/9wCJB]

Best regards

Gregor

Re: SAP PHP Development Questions

Former Member — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:23:48 GMT

Also, you might want to check this...

[Scripting Languages WIKI|https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/EmTech/Scripting+Languages]

Greetings,

Blag.

Re: SAP PHP Development Questions

Former Member — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:32:54 GMT

Thanks guys.

Pardon for my limited knowledge, but with the ABAP Trial version will I be able to develop test applications to say for example simulate on communicating with an HR module? Or does the ABAP Trial version provide some transactions that I can test - that hopefully mimic SAP module functionalities?

Are there already available tutorial blogs on this aspect? Hopefully, after fully understanding this on my own I can post my own beginner's blog on PHP scripting with SAP.

Regards,

Jan

Re: SAP PHP Development Questions

gregorw — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:08:08 GMT

Hi Jan,

haven't you read the content of Blag's Link to the Wiki? There you find a comprehensive link list of related Blogs.

With the ABAP Trial Version you have a Basis System that come i.e. with the SFLIGHT example. There you have RFC Enabled Function Modules like BAPI_SFLIGHT_GETLIST which you can call from PHP.

Best regards

Gregor

Re: SAP PHP Development Questions

Former Member — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:48:54 GMT

Ah yes! There you go. Thanks Gregor.

Will privately study this and see if I can make good out of this.