What do you do with Delphi for PHP?

Question

Well, I just got Delphi for PHP because we code our app in Delphi and I'm the web guy. Go figure, it looks pretty cool and super easy, but I can't imagine making an entire website with absolute positioned labels, that would be kind of obscene, cross-browser compliant, but obscene.

Can anyone suggest good resources/usergroups/tutorials/examples/blogs/wiki's for using Delphi for PHP

I'm not new to PHP or Delphi, but I do want to justify getting this software because it seems pretty cool.

Answer 1

Although it has been quite a while this product is on the market, it could not gain a momentum as expected. VCL4PHP seems a good framework but not good enough to beat the existing ones. The lack of documentation and community support are major drawbacks for D4PHP. I am trying to develop some basic web app (a todo list). And if I progress enough I'll make a blog about it. Apart from

• http://www.qadram.com/vcl4php/ and
• http://forums.delphi-php.net
• https://forums.embarcadero.com/category.jspa?categoryID=18

you cannot find much of a resource.

Answer 2

Good list of forums and newsgroups apparently there's an active community of VCL4PHP developers at sourceforge.

Answer 3

Delphi for PHP is pretty cool - it's just a shame that PHP has a very slow handling of data structures (just like Python), and therefore, you won't get a very impressive speed of your web application.

However, Delphi for PHP compares ok in speed with most other PHP-based frameworks, and it's surely good at organizing your code.

Answer 4

You can also have a look at:

http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/id/B0018RTNSO.html

Answer 5

Here is a forum with some interesting stuff: http://forums.delphi-php.net/

Answer 6

I don't know if it helps or not, but I just finished reading an article in the PHP Architect magazine that seems to imply that Delphi for PHP has a fair bit to do with VCL4PHP.

I daresay reading up on it (maybe starting at http://www.qadram.com/vcl4php/ ) could help.