Comments on: Delphi for PHP first impressions

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:53:47 +0000

I tried Delphi for php and found it confusing and slow. I’m a long time Codecharge Studio user and must say I see no reason to change to Delphi for php.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:21:37 +0000

As a long time Delphi user I was keen to see how Delphi4PHP performed and how easy it made app development, not very well in either case!

I see that version 2.0 has now been released, will await your review Tim and maybe tempted to dip my toe back in the water!

Gary

By: ab

ab — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:11:44 +0000

Delphi for PHP Update 2 is released now and there is a nice documentation about the VCL in progress at http://www.qadram.com/vcl4php/vcldoc_beta/

Seems things are progressing nicely.

By: ettaieb

ettaieb — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:57:58 +0000

hi!!
sorry i don’t know if it’s the right place to say it but … i have blank page when runing a very simple page with delphi PHP??!!! just a page with a frame… can someone help?
thanks to all.

By: Colin McKinnon

Colin McKinnon — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:56:34 +0000

Well I’ve got to say that I think visual programming for UI development is great idea cos I’m writing my own toolkit (and published long before I heard about this one). I’d like to take issue with the fact that D4PHP is MSWindows only but I can’t get PfP Studio to work on a MSWin server (Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris serverside and just about any DHTML capable browser client side)

And its cheaper too!

pfp-studio.sourceforge.net

By: Reg Natarajan

Reg Natarajan — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:55:34 +0000

Just thought I’d follow up to the comments I made earlier. Update 1 from Codegear appears to resolve the Input Filter issue. There are literally hundreds of other issues left, however, and these will become evident to anyone that actually uses Delphi/PHP in a production environment (which I am doing).

Despite the comments above by Rob, this was a horribly rushed release and, while I understand the need to do that type of thing occasionally, nobody should be surprised when people note that things don’t work.

At this point, the pros outweigh the cons and I’m still determined to make it work. I hope and pray there’s a version 2 soon, however.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:27:23 +0000

ayt go to this forum for help:
http://forums.delphi-php.net/

anyone interested in php frameworks should check out the qcodo framework. akelos is nice if you are into rails but qcodo is more mature and great at producing stuff rapidly.
check out their cool screencasts here:
http://www.qcodo.com/demos/

By: ayt

ayt — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:32:26 +0000

hi, i m using for delphi for php and mssql server.
I post table object , but return me ‘invalid object name error 208′.
button click :
$this->Table1->Insert();
$this->Table1->ALAN1=”ABC”;
$this->Table1->ALAN2 =”1234″;
$this->Table1->Post();
$this->Table1->Refresh();
Return error message :
‘mssql error: [208: Invalid object name 'deneme'.] in EXECUTE(“INSERT INTO deneme ( “ALAN1″, “ALAN2″ ) VALUES ( ‘ABC’, ’1234′ )”)

But alles true(database,loginname,table name vs…)

What is the problem ?
Thanks a lot.

By: albert drent

albert drent — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:00:35 +0000

What disappoints me is that when something goes wrong with the installation (in my case due to a failing windows update) php for Delphi refuses to run (cannot register due to the fact that it already is, and it cannot run due to a missing licence). Yes, CodeGear support is trying to solve the isue, but the problem currently excists for over 2 weeks now and even GodeGear cannot find the right answer. Appearantly the registration procedure is too complex, where illegal copies could be found within a week or so. So be aware that when using restorepoints your installation might go corrupt and cannot be restored!

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:12:40 +0000

Delphi4php is a joke.
Just open the master detail sample in the vcl data-aware folder.
Then go up and down through the master list.
watch how incredibly slow it retrieves detail records.
When you play long enough with it you will notice the ajax retrieval will get out of sync too..just showing the wrong detail records (and even throwing errors messages).

I advise anyone to avoid this delphi4php and use a real IDE like Eclipse (with pdt plugin) and start coding with the Akelos framework here: http://www.akelos.org