CodeGear, a provider of developer tools, has wheeled out Delphi for PHP—an integrated visual Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment for the PHP Web development language.
The new product from CodeGear can allow developers to be more productive as they write rich, database-driven Web applications in PHP, the company claimed.
According to the company, in addition to a RAD environment for PHP, key features of Delphi for PHP include—VCL for PHP, an open-source PHP 5 visual component library with more than 50 reusable components and seamless AJAX integration; out-of-the-box integration with InterBase, MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and other popular databases; an integrated PHP debugger; drag-and-drop database application development using the Data Explorer for InterBase and MySQL; and a code editor with Code Insight, Code Explorer, and Code Templates. Deployment options include Windows, Linux, Solaris and other platforms.
“Because Delphi for PHP can debug existing PHP projects as easily as it creates new ones, it instantly starts paying for itself. With contract work costing between USD 80-USD 100 per hour, if Delphi for PHP saves you just three hours, it's already paid for itself. It can do that with your first project. I'll never use 'Echo' or 'Print' as a debugging tool again,” said Brian Layman, an Akron, Ohio-based software engineer.
Delphi for PHP is part of a family of products from CodeGear that includes Delphi 2007 for Win32, Delphi for .NET, Turbo Delphi, C#Builder, C++ Builder, JBuilder and InterBase.
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