[DUG] Delphi 2007 and Delphi for PHP

[Jeremy North]

This was posted by José León Serna on the newsgroups. He is the guy
from qadram, his product is what Delphi for PHP is based on.

Subject: Delphi for PHP screencast... some AJAX going on?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:09:32 +1100

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Just some comments:
-It has Ajax integration, but depends on the component developer to
use it or not, or to abstract it more or not, for example, the DBGrid
component uses Ajax to update the data on the server without any line
of code and we provide the infraestructure in the VCL base classes to
develop components without the hassle of implement a complete new ajax
solution every time

-If you want to develop components and use your own ajax package, you
can, because the VCL has been designed to be open enough to integrate
almost anything you can imagine, that's the key of the framework, you
are not tied to anything

-The VCL for PHP framework has been designed to make easy integrate
scripts already written, for example, create a component to wrap the
Google Maps functionality, and use it on your application, it takes
less than 5 minutes and is less than 90 lines of code, in which most
are not functional code.

-The product started as a code editor, that's the tool for most (if
not all) PHP coders out there, so it loads fast, that was one of the
goals, in fact, I use it as a common text editor ;-). After that you
can create visual applications using the visual part and yes, it's
truly RAD

-Also you are not forced to develop applications in a fixed way, that
is, if you don't like to develop websites using the components, the
VCL has support for template engines (included Smarty support, but
more can be developed easily in pure PHP) so you can keep your graphic
artist generating HTML + CSS + Images and then add the live part on
that templates using the IDE.

And finally, remind the VCL for PHP is completely OpenSource, this is
something really nice because it will be a live project and we will
accept patches and third-party components to be integrated into and
shipped with future versions.

Regards

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On 2/22/07, Stefan Mueller <muellers at orcl-toolbox.com> wrote:
> Well .. the question is how easy is the integration done in "Delphi for
> PHP".
>
> My first tests showed that VS2005 & ASP.NET AJAX is actually much easier to
> use than PHP & XAJAX.
>
> I hope Delphi for PHP has some smart mambo jambo wizardry to make
> integration of this a bit easier.
>
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Stefan Mueller
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
> Behalf Of Jeremy North
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:40 AM
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi 2007 and Delphi for PHP
>
> >> AJAX ...
>
> AJAX is just a framework. If PHP has AJAX extensions then it would be
> silly if the CodeGear product couldn't support those extensions.
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