[DUG] Delphi 2007 and Delphi for PHP

[Neven MacEwan]

Jeremy North wrote:

Sounds impressive, what debugging support?

Neven
> 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
>
> ===============
>
> 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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