So you want to use the data area functions of Zend's i5 Toolkit but every time you use the function i5_write_data_area() you get no result or, if you're looking for it, an error resulting from a malformed System i command.

Don't sweat it. You just have to include the single quotes because, for some reason, the function doesn't include them automatically.

So, instead of:

 
$newText = "hello";
$dataAreaName = "dacool";
i5_data_area_write($dataAreaName, $newText);
 
 

You do this:

 
$newText = "'hello'";
$dataAreaName = "dacool";
i5_data_area_write($dataAreaName, $newText);
 

I don't know why this isn't in the official documentation other than that there is almost nothing in the official documentation.