After the hobby goodies of Craig has been published last week, you might be interesting to try programming SAP in PHP using SAPRFC. Are you ABAPer? Are you Javaer? Are you PHPer? In the world of SAP, ABAPers are the must to customize SAP R/3. To develop a web application, ABAP/4 is not the best choice. Java and PHP are better. Anyway, from the past 4 years, SAP has officially supported Java interfacing to SAP R/3 through JCo. So some ABAPers have moved themselves to Java. At least they know how to program a Java-based web application using SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.

PHP is not like system programming language like Java and not business-centric programming language like ABAP/4. The biggest different is that PHP is a dynamic type language. You don’t have to specify data type for a variable. And you don’t have to compile the code. Just code and run.

Fortunately, I found good tutorials for any programmers who has been coding in PHP for the first time.

• SAP and PHP: a practical example
• Tasting the mix of PHP and SAP
• Tasting the mix of PHP and SAP - Volume 2
• Tasting the mix of PHP and SAP - Volume 3
• PHP User Management Part 1 
• PHP / HowTo: Your system status (RZ20)

Happy coding!

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