Delphi For PHP - My First Project and Findings
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Pretty much the same impression as I have. Nice idea, gonna be great, but it’s just not happening with the 1.0 release.
Firstly, thanks for posting this info. Like you, I’m an early adopter of D4PHP. The potential is enormous. But the idea that its an ‘All in One’ solution kinda goes against the whole vibe of PHP development where apps involve many different components, frameworks, etc. and the stuff that’s been out there for years isn’t developed in D4PHP.
Hence my issues are more to do with how to take FROM D4PHP projects and move the the components INTO other frameworks for deployment. I have been successful in moving the D4PHP Date/Time Picker component into another application developed in the CodeIgniter framework, and that worked well. I’m trying to do the same with any other component that looks really good from D4PHP, but some appear more difficult than others. I tried the whole TabPage area today, and didn’t have much luck.
Fingers crossed… either D4PHP will mature really fast, or I’ll find a way to take the best from it and use it in other mature frameworks.
Myles
I’ve tried a very basic DB app using the DBGrid and DBPaginator - they don’t seem to want to play together.
Tried a mster/detail app - first row works fine but that’s about it!
As for deployment…
Hopefully it will turn out great - but right more problem than solution IMO.
Some of these problems have workarounds on that are discussed in the support forums, especially the input filter (the input filter wasn’t completed when they shipped, even though the library thought it was).
This tool will be a nightmare for you if you aren’t familiar with web development. And I don’t mean web development with a pointy-clicky interface that works like Delphi. I mean the real deal, reading and writing a streaming protocol and doing it all in code.
If you need to do real web development you’ll be happier if you either work with native PHP, which is quite a pleasant language, or find another language that suits you better (not Delphi–I’ve written Delphi web apps and it is no fun). Writing CGI applications with C is honestly easier for deployment than Delphi for PHP. I’ve done both, I know whereof I speak.