Delphi for PHP Article 1: A Video Walk Through
March 10, 2007
Rumors have been flying around for the last month about Borland producing a PHP product. “PHP? Are they nuts?” some said, “Concentrate on what you know! Are you trying to create another Kylix just to have it fade away to nothing?” Needless to say, I was a bit more optimistic than that… I mean come on! RAD PHP development? How cool would that be? PHP has the EXACT same feel as Pacal did back in the late 80s. It’s a baby language just starting to grow up. Even the people in it have the same core “I’m gonna help you because I know later you will help me” attitude that Pascal and Delphi always had.
Plus, since the restructuring of Borland has sifted the chaff from the wheat, CodeGear seems have its act together and the people of CodeGear are really the cream of the crop. (Yes, I know. I just said that they are Cream of Wheat, let it go… just let it go.)
Well, dreams came true when I was invited to be a CodeGear field tester. And last Thursday morning, with the verbiage hot off the presses from the Borland legal department, I was granted a limited exemption from my NDA (Non-disclosure agreement) to pitch a possible Google Summer of Code 2007 joint D4p/WordPress project to Automattic (I’ll let you know later how that turns out…). That NDA exemption also gave me permission to post articles and write reviews of the product. So here we are today!
So, now I can show you tell you all about the cool stuff I’ve been doing and show you movies I’ve made of the product in action.
In my usual fashion, I’ve written a gargantuan article. Instead of posting huge thing, I’m splitting the sections off into separate articles. Today, I just want to give you walk through of the product and show you some of the stuff that makes it unique.
This video uses a pre-release version of Delphi for PHP. Components, look and feel, and features may change before release. THIS VIDEO HAS SOUND.
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If you have any problems with the video playback on any browser please let me know and I will try to get it to work.
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This does not work in firefox, tried ie, and it is just stopped and refuses to play.
Could you post it on youtube or google video? those work everywhere and you can embed it here.
Hi Brian,
Good video, and the product (Delphi For PHP) look fantastic, I always think why is not a good RAD IDE for a so famous PHP, I have seen a lot of editors and IDE, but at the end they do not do what is RAD. Well CodeGear do it again now with Delphi For PHP.
BTW, Brian, can we see a video showing a Database app, I mean a Data Entry and DBGrids.
Thanks for your time
Rafael Liriano
SONEINSA
http://www.soneinsa.biz
Hi Delphite! I believe I’ve fixed the syntax error that was preventing it from working in Firefox. It works for me in IE, FireFox, Maxthon2 and Opera. Please let me know if you have any more trouble.
Thanks Rafael! A database demo is in the works,.
Wow, so this means there will be a delphi extension for php? Or their building Delphi somewhat into PHP?