Welcome!

[Former Member]

Hello SAPers!

Welcome to the new forum focused on working with SAP from PHP. Before we continue give me a moment to introduce myself. My name is John Coggeshall, a Senior Technical Consultant at Zend Technologies, the company responsible for the Zend Engine powering PHP. I've been involved with PHP for about 8 years now and am the author of a number of books and articles on PHP technologies published worldwide. So I've been doing this for awhile, but I have to say you never really hear much about SAP and PHP working together. That was why I was happy to lend my time to a new PHP/SAP-focused blog and moderate this new SAP/PHP forum. If you're interested in my blog you can find the link to it here:

/people/john.coggeshall/blog/2005/05/04/zend-and-sap-team-up-to-promote-php

As your moderator I'll be floating about answering questions and encouraging discussion about any PHP related topic. Of course, feel free to bring SAP into the discussion as well! It's also been rumored that the SDN is an incredibly vibrant and involved community, so I'm really looking forward to getting this section off the ground.

So, with that said, welcome!

Cheers,

John

[Former Member]

The attention that PHP is receiving lately can only be good news. Now due to the SAPRFC extension(<a href="http://saprfc.sourceforge.net/">http://saprfc.sourceforge.net/</a> ), people are starting to see the power which PHP is providing. It's not the fact that PHP can talk to SAP via this extension, its the other tools that come with PHP from SOAP to PDF generation, this is what makes it so powerful.

Using these tools can provide high value business systems for a very cost effective price. The Information Technology industry has become complacent in extracting large sums of money from business organisations, and forcing them to adapt around the products which are sold to them.

PHP gives some of the controls back into the hands of the business managers, and forces the Information Technology industry to reassess what value are they actually offering.

I'm looking forward to seeing what occurs in the coming months.