Laravel has been inspiring loyalty among PHP developers for its documentation, community, and many built-in features. Like most PHP frameworks, Laravel is cross-platform and can work with IBM i and Db2 data. This article shows how to take full advantage of Laravel’s built-in database components by installing an IBM i-specific extension to Laravel’s database connection class. A new fork for a useful package For years, PHP developers used the laravel-db2 package from cooper22 to connect to IBM i data. As the cooper22 package became stale and slowed its acceptance of community updates, users stepped up. BWI Companies, in cooperation with...
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