CLI php is very powerful and very useful too. There are even times to shell out to it from Delphi or from other environments. There are existing php libraries (e.g. pdf handling etc etc etc ) that are just 'ready to go', where setting up in Delphi would be reinventing the wheel all too much.
I work with TeXworks an OpenSource LaTeX editor, and they have provided an EMCA script language called QtScript (JavaScript for most intents and purposes), and using a system call you can get php to do almost any thing you need. One thing I do is get it to handle bibliographies for me, inserting the needed codes from an MySql table. You can provide JavaScript to your Delphi applications (as with php as a Delphi app scripting language using http://users.telenet.be/ws36637/php4delphi.html) as well - just a few examples (E also have some newer stuff on this as well I think) ... Commercial: http://eco148-88394.innterhost.net/paxscript/ OpenSource: "Javascript in Desktop Applications" http://www.codebot.org/delphi/?doc=9573 (And see http://code.google.com/p/delphichromiumembedded/ for use of the V8 engine), - then expose needed additional objects and functions and a generic system call, and the users can script away their own extensions virtually. (I don't mean in the TWebBrowser component.) This project http://phpjs.org/ has even ported much of the appropriatly useful php routines into JavaScript and that can be used as an evaluated library in a Delphi application scripting process. (Most people out there are not going to learn a Pascal Script -- so perhaps leverage the tremendous background people now have in Js and php for Delphi application scripting) Aptana Studio is great. They did drop php in 2.0 I think, for a while - huge outcry - and it is fully back in 3.0 - plus plugins as well. "Aptana web studio is for JavaScript [php] what Delphi is for real code. " -- from http://delphimax.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/delphi-for-javascript-a-viable-idea-or-wishful-thinking/ Paul On 7 June 2011 15:00, Gary T. Benner <g...@benner.co.nz> wrote: > [Reply] > > HI All, > > Aptana has it's own development $tudio, but also has free plugins for > Eclipse. Both allow debugging for PHP. > > PHPclipse also works fine, but you need to find html, css and js plugins. > > kr > > Gary > > At 14:30 on 7/06/2011 you wrote > >>Hi Robert > >> > >>> I have been following the thread with much interest. We use PHP becuase > >>> it is... > >>> > >>> 1) platform independent > >>> 2) widely supported by ISPs and support > >>> 3) Simple, fast and effective > >>> 4) Used by other products we support > >>> > >>> > >>> Up until recently we have been making minor modifications to existing > >>> products OR simple internal systems. We have just use Notepad++ to do > >>> this work. > >>> > >>> Now we are about to embark on a major new system (a web service, not a > >>> web site). What dev platform would people recommend. No one has > >>> mentioned Eclipse, Aptana Studio which sounds good but seems aimed at > >>> Ruby On Rails more than PHP. Does anyone know if it does code > >>> completion and debugging of PHP (it says it does for RoR). > >> > >>+1 for Eclipse > >>It provides code completion, jump to implementation (ctrl click) and > >>debugging (breakpoints, watches, local variables, call stack etc) in the > >>IDE. > >>With plugins for CSS, Javascript, HTML, XML & UML, as well what could be > >>better? > >> > >>Todd > >> > >>> Still love Delphi but PHP seems to be the way to go for web dev. > >>> > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> Rob > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > >>> Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > >>> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > >>> Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: >>> unsubscribe > >> > >> > >>-- > >><b>Passion</b> is no substitute for <b>reason</b> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > >>Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > >>Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > >>Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: >> unsubscribe > >> > > Gary Benner MNZCS ITCP > Information Technology Certified Professional > Onlearn Limited - Online Learning Hosting & Support, Training & Content > Development > 123 Internet Limited - Managed Web Hosting, Virtualisation, High > Availability Systems & Cluster Technologies > Semantic Limited - Software Development & Systems Design, Online Education, > e-Commerce > Disaster Warning Systems Limited - Public Emergency Warning and > Communication Systems > Mob: 021 966 992 > DDI: +64 7 543 1206 > Email: g...@benner.co.nz > Skype: garybenner > > > Ref#: 41006 > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
