Delphi for PHP quick start By:
John Kaster
Abstract: A brief introduction to installing and using Delphi for PHP
What is Delphi for PHP?
Delphi for PHP is a new product from CodeGear for developing with PHP applications, modules, libraries and components "the Delphi way." Delphi for PHP is a
Rapid
Application
Development (RAD) environment with a designer, editor, debugger, deployment wizard, and component framework called "VCL for PHP."
Our existing Delphi customers will find it extremely familiar. We hope PHP developers will find it very productive, fun, and friendly to use.
Installing Delphi for PHPWhile
Delphi for PHP™ applications can run on any device supporting PHP, the integrated development environment (IDE) is only supported on the Microsoft Windows platform in this release. After you have your installation file for
Delphi for PHP, you can run the installation tool.
When you run the install, you will first see this screen.
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Click
Next, and you'll see a license agreement dialog.
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The text won't be blurry like it is in this screen shot, however!
If you click
I accept the agreement and
Next, you'll see a dialog similar to the following:
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Specify the folder for your install, and click
Next.
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You can change the name of the Start Menu folder if you want, and click
Next.
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Decide whether you want to create a desktop icon or not, and click
Next.
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If your installation choices are correct, click
Install.
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The install will start running. At any time, you can click
Cancel to roll back the installation process and cancel the install.
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After the installation completes, you are ready to use
Delphi for PHP. If you leave the checkbox checked and click
Finish, the IDE will load. Everything you need to develop and test a PHP application on your local machine has been installed and configured, including PHP, Apache, InterBase and MySQL Database engines and PHP connectivity for them.
Delphi for PHP IDE overviewThe Delphi for PHP IDE
is written in Delphi, but it is not currently part of the Galileo IDE, which is the host environment for
Delphi,
C++Builder, and
C#Builder. It should be very familiar to any Delphi, C++Builder or C#Builder developer however. We have made it as similar to the developer studio IDE as possible for this first release.
The first thing you will see is the attractive splash screen.
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Default IDE layoutWhen the IDE first loads, the welcome page and the default layout view is displayed.
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Welcome pageThe welcome page provides direct links to recent projects, recent files, and headlines relevant to
Delphi for PHP. The headlines are provided automatically from RSS and/or atom feeds published by CodeGear, and are only updated when you are connected to the internet.
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Creating a projectTo create a new project, click the
New button on the welcome page, select the
File | New menu item and pick the option you want to create.
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If you click
New or select
Other … you will see this dialog:
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Select
Application and click
OK. This will create the application and present the design interface to you.
New PHP application
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As you can see, the Welcome page has been replaced by the PHP
form designer. The
Code Explorer tab is populated with an outline of navigation points for your form. The
Object Inspector allows you to edit the properties of the selected item on the design surface. (Right now, the selected item is the form itself.) The
Project Manager shows all files related to this project (or group of projects). The
Tool Palette lists all the components you can drag and drop onto the form designer.
Designing the formNow that the blank form is displayed in the designer, we can drop the components onto it directly from the
tool palette. So, let's drop an
Edit,
ListBox, and
Button
component onto the form. I'll resize the
Edit so it is the same width as the
ListBox, and put the Button to the right of the
Edit control.
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Note: You can also double click on a component to put a copy of it on the center of the design surface and move it from there.
Next, I'll change the caption for the button to "Add" in the object inspector, and double click on the button to create its click event.
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This creates the event stub for the button click event, and puts me in the source code editor right inside the click event. I'm ready to type my code. The final version of the Button click event is:
function Button1Click($sender, $params){$this->ListBox1->Items[] = $this->Edit1->Text;}When the application is run, the browser looks something like this:
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We can type text in the edit box, and click the Add button to prove how easy and fast it is to design and build applications with
Delphi for PHP.
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Stay tunedStay tuned for more information on
Delphi for PHP. This article is intended to introduce the basic concepts of Delphi-style development for PHP, but there is much more to cover for the rich world of PHP development!
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