Monday, 7 May 2007

Overview of Delphi for PHP

Paul Gregg has posted an overview of Delphi for PHP(D4PHP). He throws more light on the product and says, D4PHP is CodeGear's first attempt at bringing visual rapid application development to PHP.

He tries his hand at it and writes a simple 'Hello World' PHP script. He wasn't sure what was going on with the programming and how was it supposed to plug together. Visual Component Library (VCLs) exist to 'simplify' the building of applications, so he tries to follow the build-a-component guide and turn the preg_find recursive directory iterator/filter/sorter into a VCL. Though he succeeded in carrying out the function but he was unsure about the testing possibilities.

He cautions you not to use POST handlers and sequential logic that you usually use and prepare to look at application components that seem to have a life of its on.

Paul concludes by confessing that D4PHP is a huge concept for him to grapple with but he enjoyed the experience.