CodeGear Launches Delphi for PHP for RAD Web Development

[Andrew Holubovski]

CodeGearT Launches DelphiR for PHP for RAD Web Development

CodeGear Revolutionizes PHP Development with Visual RAD IDE and Component
Architecture

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. - Feb. 20, 2007 - CodeGear, a leader in developer
tools, today announced DelphiR for PHP, a component-based rapid application
development (RAD) IDE, and VCL for PHP, an open source visual component
library.

Delphi for PHP brings RAD productivity benefits to PHP Web developers that
Delphi users have enjoyed for years. PHP is the most prominent dynamic Web
language today and one of the top 10 programming languages overall. Delphi
for PHP is designed to take PHP development to the next-level by making it
faster and easier to develop rich, database-driven Web applications.

"CodeGear developer tools are the finest on the market and Delphi for PHP is
no exception," said Jonathan Benedicto, owner of JomiTech, a developer tools
company based in Ontario, Canada.

"As a long-time PHP developer, I quickly adopted Delphi for PHP as my
favorite editor. The VCL for PHP offers the familiar Delphi design with
tremendous RAD-oriented capabilities. I am now able to simply decouple the
GUI from the actual webpage logic code by using the integrated page
templating feature. Delphi for PHP truly takes PHP development to the next
level," said Benedicto.

"When it comes to creating dynamic Web applications, PHP developers have had
basic source code editing and debugging tools; what's really missing for PHP
has been Rapid Development tools and component frameworks that rival modern
tools, like Visual StudioR and Delphi and frameworks like ASP.NET and VCL,"
said Michael Swindell, CodeGear vice president of products and strategy.

"Delphi for PHP offers all the features and functionality needed to rapidly
and visually create powerful PHP applications, new PHP components, and
package existing PHP code into reusable visual components. Delphi for PHP
does this all with seamless support for MySQLR, InterBaseR from CodeGear,
and other SQL databases and it does it with an open source VCL for PHP.
MicrosoftR WindowsR RAD developers will now have the familiarity and ease of
use that Delphi and C++BuilderR have always provided, and can move into PHP
development with speed and confidence," said Swindell.

Important features of Delphi for PHP include:

RAD environment for PHP
VCL for PHP - Open source PHP 5 visual component library with more than 50
extendable and reusable components with seamless AJAX integration
Out-of-the-box database integration with InterBase, MySQL, OracleR,
Microsoft SQL Server, and other popular databases
Integrated PHP debugger
Deployment of PHP applications on Windows, Linux, Solaris and other
platforms
Internationalization support for applications
Drag and drop database application development using the Data Explorer for
InterBase and MySQL
Code editor with Code Insight, Code Explorer, and Code Templates, making it
easier and faster to write PHP code
VCL for PHP is based on the most popular open source PHP scripts and
libraries, including Qooxdoo, Adodb, DynAPI, Smarty, XAjax and JSCalendar.
Inspired by VCL for Delphi, the component architecture is 100 percent
written in PHP. Developers can create and integrate components into the IDE
and extend the existing components to fit their needs. VCL for PHP is an
open source library available on SourceForge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vcl4php.

Delphi for PHP is part of a family of products from CodeGear that includes
Delphi 2007 for Win32, Delphi .NET, C#Builder, C++ Builder and Developer
Studio. Developers will be able to hear more about these products, as well
as JBuilderR 2007 and InterBase, at the first-ever CodeRage 2007 Virtual
Developer Conference - March 12-16. This online developers conference will
feature more than 50 technical sessions, covering topics that are all the
rage this year. Registration and agenda details will be available at
http://conferences.codegear.com/coderage07.

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