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• For an excellent article on integrating PHP with Derby/Cloudscape, see "Connecting PHP applications to Apache Derby."
  
  
• Learn how to configure IBM Cloudscape V10.0 and IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) V8.2 servers for access from PHP V4.x and PHP V5.x "Develop IBM Cloudscape and DB2 Universal Database applications with PHP."
  
  
• To learn about the differences between the open source Apache Web server and IBM's version and view demonstrations of IBM's version running a well-known PHP application, see "Hosting PHP applications on the IBM HTTP Server."
  
  
• For information about getting Apache V2 and PHP V4.x to work together on Linux, read the Apache 2 and PHP Installation guide.
  
  
• Learn more about PHP data objects and their capabilities in the PHP Manual.
  
  
• Various HTML form input data you may want to use for representing attributes is available.
  
  
• Visit the IBM Tivoli information center to learn more about the SQL syntax and items.
  
  
• For a series of tutorials designed to broaden your PHP skills, see: Learning PHP, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
  
  
• Visit the developerWorks SOA and Web services zone for extensive information.
  
  

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• Before you start
• Setting up: Derby and initial files
• The basic storefront
• PHP data objects
• PDO basics: Adding items to the site
• User sessions
• Summary
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