CodeGear, the developer tools unit of Borland Software, has announced new tools to enable the rapid development of PHP applications, as well as a new rapid application development environment for Windows Vista and AJAX.
CodeGear on Feb. 20 announced Delphi for PHP, a component-based RAD IDE (integrated development environment) and VCL (visual component library) for PHP.
“When we spun out the division, we said we were expanding into dynamic languages and we hinted at PHP and Ruby,” said Michael Swindell, vice president of products and strategy at CodeGear, based in Scotts Valley, Calif. “The PHP market has a handful of tools out there, but none that provide a modern application development platform for PHP.”
Moreover, Swindell said there has been a lack of a component standard for componentizing PHP code into easily reusable plug-ins. So Delphi for PHP brings the RAD approach of Borland’s popular Delphi IDE to the PHP platform.
“The most important thing this product brings to the market is a standardized component model to PHP so that you can visually build PHP applications from the components,” Swindell said. “We supply about 50 components, and developers can build their own” or they can “wrapper” existing PHP code and make components, he said.
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