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Last night I finally was able to have time install Delphi 2007 on my machine. Wow!!!! Nice. First and important thing – if you worried that it will break your existing installation of Delphi 2006, then answer is – it will not break it but nicely coexists. New installer looks much better then before. I am not sure if .Net environment is still installed (I would think it is) but not to see this annoying Prerequisite screen is good. Nice theme for installer. Much less questions to go through. Now it comes with live update – I do not have to watch Download page or NG announcements. Some things about DVD itself.  DVD… 4Gb is huge. But no more of Read more

With recent release of Delphi 2007 and Delphi for PHP “History of Delphi” page has been updated to reflect latest releases. Visit our site to see what happened with Pascal/Delphi project over the years.

Working with Delphi for PHP you might come to the point when you will be asked to use something else then Local Apache Server which comes with DfPHP, in particular, to prepare your project to be deployed on IIS server. And to make your job harder it should be on Windows 2003 Server. Well, you might already have experience with IIS on your Windows XP. You would think that everything should go smoothly… not necessarily… Windows 2003 Server is closer to Windows Vista then Windows XP in some areas and this is where the following articles might help you out. Setting up PHP (CGI) to work on Windows Server 2003 Setting up PHP (ISAPI) on Windows Server 2003

CodeGear has announced General availability of Delphi for PHP. Product is now in the wild world and it will be exiting next few months to see how things are going. Along with that Jose Leon Serna who is managing VCL part of DfPHP project has presented a new link – not for documentation – http://vcl4php.sourceforge.net/vcldoc/.

Want to see some advertisment materials for Delphi for PHP? Click here to see blog entry by William Yang – very big picture.

I was asked if it is easy to draw something in DfPHP. Hm, yes it is. There is a class called Canvas… Oh!!! something familiar! First idea was to use a PHP drawing by creating a PNG file which then uploaded to the page. It was not very fast and sometime would make you page looks ugly. So,… after some research a proposition was made to use of one of the best Free JavaScript based Drawing libraries  – JSGraphics by Walter Zorn – and now it is part of DfPHP. As a result, Canvas class and Bevel, Shape, PaintBox objects are based on this Js code … and you should find a few samples included with the product. Please notice that you can still use PHP to Read more

I just read post on Professional PHP about Delphi for PHP. It is somewhat an old post. I really would like to see author’s reaction after official release of the product. Another thing there is a mentioning of Prado framework. Glance overview shows that it is more PHP then Qooxdoo library as an example. It might be not as complex as Q library but would be worth to look at. Prado is Open Source project but have no IDE to work with. Since integration into DfPHP is not that complex, who knows we might see some partnership in the future… if Prado team will consider that. Will be interesting to see it