Possibilities of using D4PHP with...

[YogiYang]

I am new to PHP (as I have been assigned one more Development Department to manage). Coming from Delphi background I think it will be easy to use D4PHP. But I have a few queries...

1. Our web department is generally using Synfony for all kinds of web development. It is possible to integrate this framework with D4PHP? How will D4PHP help in using this framework?

2. There are many eCommerce frameworks available on net as Open Source. Here we generally use Magento & osCommerce. Can these be integrated in D4PHP? If yes then How?

3. Will I get any benefit by using D4PHP to customize Joomla?

If some of all of these are solveable by use of D4PHP it would be great and I can convince both the developers to adopt D4PHP

TIA

Yogi Yang

[405hp]

all IMO

D4PHP is a combination of an IDE that is familiar to D4PASCAL users and the VCL for PHP which is an emitter of DHTML to make webpages that are displayed in a web browser. It will save you time and many keystrokes when creating a page. Many parts of the VCL are made to look like something in the pascal version.

Anything you can do with PHP, JS or HTML can probably be done using the VCL but some things are better done with out it.

The ide works as an editor of anything quite well.

[HermanPeeren]

At the moment I am investigating what Delphi for PHP can do for extension-development in Joomla. Especialy: can D4PHP be used for visual development of Joomla (1.5) components, modules and plugins, using all the Joomla classes, the MVC pattern and more? I have some ideas about it, but still working it out, wrapping things in D4PHP-components etc. A first presentation of this investigation will be held on Saturday december 13, 15.00 hour in IJsselstein, Netherlands (for a Dutch Delphi users group). I will publish results and let you know on this forum.

Of course D4PHP can always be used as a PHP-editor for any PHP-code and it does a nice job, but the speciality is visual development. I am very curious how far I'll come in this respect with Joomla. Let you know.

Ciao,
Herman

[YogiYang]

Originally Posted by HermanPeeren

Of course D4PHP can always be used as a PHP-editor for any PHP-code and it does a nice job, but the speciality is visual development. I am very curious how far I'll come in this respect with Joomla. Let you know.Herman

Thanks.

I will wait for your feedback.


Yogi Yang

[YogiYang]

Originally Posted by 405hp

The ide works as an editor of anything quite well.

For an Editor I like Dreamweaver as it is more versatile compared to what is offered in D4PHP. I am interested in D4PHP for its ease of development and GUI like concepts.

I want to convenience the developers to stop using Dreamweaver blindly (they seem to believe that DW is the only HTML/PHP editor in the world) and adopt D4PHP.

Thanks,

Yogi Yang

[YogiYang]

I am trying to integrate D4PHP and osCommerce. Can someone guide me as to how I can do this. Have I to add all the files of osCommerce to the project generated in D4PHP? Or is there some other way of integrating?

TIA

[HermanPeeren]

My conclusion: don't use D4PHP for making Joomla!-extensions. More on:
Joomla

[YogiYang]

Originally Posted by HermanPeeren

My conclusion: don't use D4PHP for making Joomla!-extensions. More on:
Joomla

Thanks for your inputs.