[DUG] PHP4Delphi

[Tim Jarvis]

Hey Todd,
This is good stuff, and I have taken the liberty of passing this onto
some of the product team (bcc'd), please keep it coming.
Also, one of the things we did was to make VCL for PHP truly open
source, I really strongly urge you and others like you who have great
ideas, to make a contribution directly to the product, here is your
chance to have a direct and immediate impact to the product.
Regards Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of Todd Martin
Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2007 10:40 AM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] PHP4Delphi

I have had a quite an extensive look through the VCL4PHP code and,
although I 
like the concept, I can't say I'm that impressed with the
implementation.

There are a number of silly assumptions.
The first that springs to mind is the idea that a web page should only
contain 
"one" form. What a ridiculous constraint!

Also there is a lot of duplicated code and tight coupling between the
classes.  
Not to mention the fact that every control is database aware. Yuck.

The ajax stuff requires every component in the form to be completely 
regenerated and then all the html from the controls that haven't changed
is 
discarded. How slow and inefficient. I would have thought at least an 
observer pattern could have been introduced here.

Todd.



On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:39, Alister Christie wrote:
> I agree, the Delphi for PHP name just doesn't seem right to me - they
> apparently had big debates about it at CodeGear.  I guess they are
just
> using the Delphi name to give it more credibility.  Has anyone written
> anything significant yet in it?  The only thing I've done is the
> mortgage calculator movie so far (not my best work).  I'm wanting to
> write a suite of rental property analysis tools (basically porting a
> win32 app I wrote ages ago).
>
> Alister Christie
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> >> Which also reraises the issue of "What is Delphi" now we have
Delphi for
> >> PHP?
> >
> > True. The fact that you are asking that question proves that the
> > naming of that product was, lets just say, very strange.
>
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