Thursday, 10 May 2007

Open Source Projects in Delphi for PHP

Did you know that a few of the components in Delphi for PHP are actually based on open source projects? Justin Silverton dwells into the list of Open Source Projects in Delphi for PHP. He informs you CodeGear announced the latest addition to their product line called Delphi for PHP. It is a new tool that allows developers to create PHP applications with a drag-and-drop Graphical User Interface (GUI) interface. He feels including these Open Source projects is a good thing, because many of these projects have been in use for awhile, thoroughly bug tested, and many features.

The list he provides is as follows:

• Qooxdoo Framework: Qooxdoo is the basis for many of the VCL controls. And not all of the properties of the Qooxdoo controls that are used are available to the IDE Object Inspector. Learning the API can help you discover the other properties that you can set using JavaScript.
• VCL4PHP: this project is a class library of PHP components, which replicate VCL for Win32. VCL for PHP is PHP framework to develop web applications, it’s OpenSource and it’s licensed using LGPL. It is the basis for the majority of the libraries within Delphi for PHP.
• Walterzorn vector graphics library: this JavaScript VectorGraphics library provides graphics capabilities for JavaScript. Another goal during development of this JavaScript Draw Shapes Vector Graphics Library was to achieve optimized performance and cleanly arranged pixel stair-step patterns.
• Xajax - Ajax library: the Xajax PHP object generates JavaScript wrapper functions for the PHP functions you want to be able to call asynchronously from your application.